Hi Marc,
Dwise1 has just noted that you edited your definition of
atheist in
Message 26 to be
wickedness. I'm going to have to disallow this definition, too, because there are no statistics on how many wicked people are scientists, so you would have no data to argue from. Also, because wickedness is subjective there is no objective way to determine if someone is wicked or not. Stephen Weinberg is definitely an atheist by the definition everyone else here is using, but whether he is also wicked is likely not something we could ever agree on, and the same is true of all the rest of the scientists in the NAS and the world.
Please use a mainstream definition of atheist appropriate for this context. This definition from Answers.com should work fine:
atheist (ā'thē-ĭst) n. One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.
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