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> How typically atheistic, scientific minds

I often find those atheistic wannabe scientific minds to be equally or more "religious" than many religious people. Proselytising? Check. Convinced of their own and their "scriptures" infallibility? Check. Etc

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It's incredibly insulting to call the people who contributed to the big bang theory "atheistic wannabe scientific minds".

> to call the people who contributed to the big bang theory "atheistic wannabe scientific minds".

Never did that. "adventured" quite clearly talked about the "big bang crowd"[0], not the people who contributed to the theory, and I'm supporting his/her view.

[0]: "I've found the big bang crowd to be almost like a religion."

Ah, the big bang crowd doesn't include the people who coined the term, OK

Well it might but they're such a necessarily small part of the group that they're not indicative of the entire mass.

Especially insulting to the man who first proposed the Big Bang, who happened to be a Catholic priest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

Kind of like religion. (Well, except for the possession of actual quantifiable evidence....).

For actual scientists yes. For a large subset of the atheists? Not so much it seems, to the point where the more serious among them are annoyed about it.

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