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Clay Routledge Ph.D. wrote in ''Psychology Today'' about '''atheism and belief in aliens''':

Clay Routledge Ph.D. wrote in ''Psychology Today'' about '''atheism and belief in aliens''':

{{Cquote|Atheists reject the magical world. No God. No angels and demons. No miracles. And so on. The general position of what is often referred to as the New Atheist movement is that atheists approach life through logic and empirical evidence (science) whereas religious people rely on faith and feelings. Many atheists would argue that they do not believe in something unless there is a good reason for doing so. But is this true?

{{cquote|Atheists reject the magical world. No God. No angels and demons. No miracles. And so on. The general position of what is often referred to as the New Atheist movement is that atheists approach life through logic and empirical evidence (science) whereas religious people rely on faith and feelings. Many atheists would argue that they do not believe in something unless there is a good reason for doing so. But is this true?

I recently started a program of research to answer this and related questions concerning the magical lives of atheists. Atheists explicitly reject religion but are they really not magical thinkers? For this post, I am going to focus on the topic of intelligent alien life. Atheists may not believe in God, but they seem particularly susceptible to believing that intelligent alien life has visited our planet despite there being no compelling evidence to hold such a belief....

I recently started a program of research to answer this and related questions concerning the magical lives of atheists. Atheists explicitly reject religion but are they really not magical thinkers? For this post, I am going to focus on the topic of intelligent alien life. Atheists may not believe in God, but they seem particularly susceptible to believing that intelligent alien life has visited our planet despite there being no compelling evidence to hold such a belief....

So what does this mean?

So what does this mean?

Based on these and many other findings that I will discuss in future posts, I propose that magical thinking is not an all or nothing concept.<ref>[Atheists Love Aliens] by Clay Routledge Ph.D., ,''Psychology Today''</ref>}}

Based on these and many other findings that I will discuss in future posts, I propose that magical thinking is not an all or nothing concept.<ref>[https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/more-mortal/201504/atheists-love-aliens Atheists Love Aliens] by Clay Routledge Ph.D., ,''Psychology Today''</ref>}}

== Irreligion, evolutionary belief, UFOlogy and other pseudoscience ==

== Irreligion, evolutionary belief, UFOlogy and other pseudoscience ==