About 29% of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated according to a Pew Research study, either identifying as an atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.”. But while atheists and ...

Atheist: One who does not believe in the existence of any gods. All other factors, including degree of confidence in the nonexistence of gods, have no bearing. Only the absence of belief is relevant.

Religion has always been the enemy of science, suppressing its findings—by lethal methods when necessary. Only with the rise of secularism were brave, agnostic and atheist scientists able to ...