there were people marauding all over the strand this morning
announcing to anyone who would listen (ie no-one) that "atheists make bad scientists".
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:29, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

On what basis, exactly?
Granted, I wouldn't say I was a good scientist, but I'm fairly sure that has more to do with my own apathy and ignorance than my atheism.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:31, Reply)

god i don't know!
it's not like i went to the lecture, being interested in neither god nor science...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:34, Reply)

Oh, it was a lecture?
Sorry, I assumed it was just a bunch of pillocks on soapboxes with megaphones - not unlike that clown who loiters round Oxford Circus demanding to know whether you're "a sinner or a winner."
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:36, Reply)

nah
they were advertising a lecture. in a church.

which kind of explains their point of view, i suppose.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:39, Reply)

*facepalms*
No obvious agenda there, then?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:41, Reply)

They are right
but they missed the word "better" off the end of the sentence.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:33, Reply)