{"id":3333,"date":"2017-05-22T05:33:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2017-05-22T05:33:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:33:42","slug":"go-where-the-science-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"Go Where The Science Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from &#8220;Not an atheist&#8221;:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhy do you atheists believe you know better than actual scientists that figured all this shit out? Science doesn&#8217;t lead to atheism, it refuted atheism a long time ago.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nScience is a process, and it has definitely led many to atheism by helping them discover natural explanations for phenomena previously thought to be the work of gods.  Everyone thinks of evolution as an example, but it goes all the way back to things like the existence and movement of the sun.  Others simply attribute the new mechanisms to God as well and are awed by the wondrous ways in which He apparently works, so science does end up leading some farther from atheism than they started.  Overall, where science &#8220;leads&#8221; in this sense is highly subjective and therefore varies wildly.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs for your last point, have a quick search of the site to see if the specific refutation of atheism you&#8217;re thinking of is already addressed.  If not, we&#8217;d love to hear about it.  If so, drop a comment on the article you find and we&#8217;ll pick up from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from &#8220;Not an atheist&#8221;: Why do you atheists believe you know better than actual scientists that figured all this shit out? Science doesn&#8217;t lead to atheism, it refuted atheism a long time ago. Answer by SmartLX: Science is a process, and it has definitely led many to atheism by helping them discover natural explanations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go Where The Science Leads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[561,6],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-2","category-text","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-RL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}