“I think only an idiot can be an atheist."
—Nobel Prize winning chemist Christian Anfinsen.
Science proved him right:
'It's Easy to Be an Atheist if You Ignore Science'
'Atheists embarrassed: study proves atheism uses less brain function'
'Evolutionary Studies Suggest that Atheists, Whatever They Say to the Contrary, Really Do Believe in God'
He's hardly the only scientist to think that way:
“From the perspective of the latest physical theories, Christianity is not a mere religion, but an experimentally testable science.”
—Professor of Mathematical Physics Frank Tipler.
“The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.”
—Nobel Prize winning physicist Arno Penzias.
“The more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.”
—Dr. John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University.
“The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is non-intuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief that God became Man around two thousand years ago, may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense intuitions.”
—Nobel Prize winning physicist Tony Hewish.
They're hardly alone either, since contrary to atheist supposition, the majority of all scientists are believers:
'Latest Study Finds Most Scientists in the World are Religious'
'It's a big, fat myth that all scientists are religion-hating atheists'
'Are Top Scientists Really So Atheistic? Look at the Data'
'It's Easy to Be an Atheist if You Ignore Science'
'The myth of scientists as atheists'
Including the greatest minds in the history of Human science:
Link - http://godevidence.com/2010/08/quotes-ab...
And the majority of the World's most-elite scientists, Nobel Prize winners:
Link - https://www.religiousforums.com/threads/...
Like the man said:
“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
—Cambridge University astrophysicist and mathematician Fred Hoyle.
No less an authority than the American Mathematical Society itself did just that:
"Here is the mother of all spoilers: The probability that the monotheistic, prayer-answering God exists is... 67%"
Link - http://www.ams.org/notices/200802/tx0802...
To the educated, science AND religion go hand in hand:
'Science and religion 'aren't as opposed as you'd think', experts claim'
'Why Science Is Not in Conflict with Religion'
''Faith and science closely linked'
Like these guys said:
“There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other."
—Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Planck.
“Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist must be rather silly.”
—Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Born.
It's only self deluded daydreaming atheists who're hellbent on pretending otherwise:
“Those who have magnified more recent controversies about the relations of science and religion, and who have projected them back into historical time, simply perpetuate a historical myth. The myth of a perennial conflict between science and religion is one to which no historian of science would subscribe.”
—Former Oxford University Professor of Science and Religion Peter Harrison.
All in all, science serves as a more useful tool for confirming religious faith & debunking nonsense like atheism.