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private life. Although anti-Islamic sentiments may have spiked after 9/11 atheists are more disliked than any other group with Muslims following them. What have the atheists done to earn such distrust? Is it because of their "I don't care about you" attitude or what? Americans have bagged the most Nobel prizes but this alienation from the masses shows a serious problem which atheists probably have to think seriously about. Since Muslims are next on the list and they are religious, the distrust of atheists may not be due to their disbelief of God. What do you think? All opinions are welcome but please be polite.

Source: http://www.soc.umn.edu/~hartmann/files/atheist%20a...

We have 3 dimensional vision and imagination. If i was not a hard core mathematician how can I visualize more than 3 dimensions? Physics cannot help me. Am I to blindly accept some abstract concept? I believe that mathematicians speak of 10 or 11 dimensions.

1) Did they accept the delusion after rationality failed them?

2) Are they superstitious now inspite of the fact that they disbelieved before?

Or is there something in their rationality which convinced them to believe?

Anthony Flew was one the most respected atheists of the 20th century and he became a deist. Do you condemn him as gullible?

Are we open minded to accept that atheists could be wrong for a while? Similarly many believers have become disbelievers as they became educated but how come so many atheists convert after remaining educated for so long? Does the intelligence and atheist hypothesis take a knock?

Think before you answer and please avoid Ad Hominem.

Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_atheis...

An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details statistics on religion in America and explores the shifts taking place in the U.S. religious landscape.

The survey finds that the number of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith today (16.1%) is more than double the number who say they were not affiliated with any particular religion as children. Among Americans ages 18-29, one-in-four say they are not currently affiliated with any particular religion.

People not affiliated with any particular religion stand out for their relative youth compared with other religious traditions. Among the unaffiliated, 31% are under age 30 and 71% are under age 50.

By contrast, members of mainline Protestant churches and Jews are older, on average, than members of other groups. Roughly half of Jews and members of mainline churches are age 50 and older, compared with approximately four-in-ten American adults overall.

http://religions.pewforum.org/reports

We saw the following events in recent times:

1) Iceland volcano eruption.

2) Earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand, Japan and now in Burma, China, Pakistan and Thailand.

3) Floods in Australia

Are the fluids below the earth's crust swelling or causing the crust to tremble?

When the Big bang occurred and shortly afterwards it is said due to cooling the first protons and neutrons started reacting forming Dueterium then Helium and then Hydrogen. If all particles started from one point they should have been at the same temperature. How did cooling occur? For cooling there should have been a heat sink. What was it which absorbed all the heat?

Please look at this video first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5djjeySzk&NR=1

The concept of God is not denied by Stephen Hawking and he says that the ultimate triumph of reason and science is to realize the mind of God. Does this mean that skeptical questioning reveals a lot of the universe which we understand and ultimately when understanding is complete will we realize God? Here I do not mean God as described in any religious book. Does one of the greatest scientists point to a grand vision and understanding of God in the future? I assume he means that, at the moment we do not know God.

I request you all to first reflect on Stephen Hawking's words deeply and then answer. Thanks and hoping to receive serious thoughtful answers with citations if possible.