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Atheists and the National Academy of Sciences (view source)
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The [[scientific revolution]] was birthed in a Christianized Europe (see: [[Christianity and science]]). And devout Christians played a significant role in the scientific revolution.<ref>[http://www.ldolphin.org/bumbulis/#anchor5343749 Christianity and the birth of science]</ref>
The [[scientific revolution]] was birthed in a Christianized Europe (see: [[Christianity and science]]). And devout Christians played a significant role in the scientific revolution.<ref>[http://www.ldolphin.org/bumbulis/#anchor5343749 Christianity and the birth of science]</ref>
=== Logical fallacies committed: Category mistake and appeal to authority ==
== Appeal to the religious beliefs of National Academy of Sciences scientists ==
Despite the poor survey design of the survey in question (which the atheist [[Eugenie C. Scott]] has acknowledged as noted above), atheist apologists commonly cite a survey of the religious beliefs of the scientists who are members of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in order to justify their atheism.
According to the Oxford Dictionaries website, a category mistake is "The error of assigning to something a quality or action that can properly be assigned to things only of another category, for example, treating abstract concepts as though they had a physical location."<ref>[http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/category-mistake Category mistake - Oxford dictionaries]</ref>
As noted above, strictly speaking, the existence of God is a [[Philosophy|philosophical]] question and not [[science|scientific]] question since God is supernatural and thus outside of nature. Furthermore, as noted above, the majority of philosophers of religion, or those who have extensively studied the issue of the [[Arguments for the existence of God|existence of God]], are [[theism|theists]] (72 percent).<ref>[http://www.strangenotions.com/atheist-scientists/ Does it matter that many scientists are atheists?]</ref>
In addition, as noted above, there is experimental evidence supporting the proposition that the God of the Bible does answer prayers.<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-apologist-10-reasons-for-the-fall-of-atheism-106531/ Christian Apologist: 10 Reasons for the Fall of Atheism] by [[Gary Habermas]]</ref>
Even if atheists were not committing a category mistake in relation to citing the religious beliefs of NAS scientists, it is an [[appeal to authority]] which is a logical fallacy.
== See also ==
== See also ==