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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KMLWL" data-source="post: 12250514" data-attributes="member: 387688">Not really.I'll give you a brief wikipedia definition  "Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief" target="_blank">belief</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God" target="_blank">existence of deities</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-Nielsen-EB-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deity" target="_blank">deities</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-RoweRoutledge-1" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-oxdicphil-2" target="_blank">[3]</a> Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-oxdicphil-2" target="_blank">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-religioustolerance-3" target="_blank">[4]</a> Atheism is contrasted with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism" target="_blank">theism</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-reldef-4" target="_blank">[5]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-OED-theism-5" target="_blank">[6]</a> which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-OED-theism-5" target="_blank">[6]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[7]</a> The term atheism originated from the Greek <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%84%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%BF%CF%82" target="_blank">ἄθεος</a> (atheos), meaning "without god", used as a pejorative term applied to those thought to reject the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods" target="_blank">gods</a> worshipped by the larger society. With the spread of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought" target="_blank">freethought</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeptical_inquiry" target="_blank">skeptical inquiry</a>, and subsequent increase in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_religion" target="_blank">criticism of religion</a>, application of the term narrowed in scope"( from wikipedia)I don't believe in science. Science is not a process of belief.  It's a method of creating a model to explain phenomena in a rational way.</blockquote>

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