modern bilim insanlarının ateist olması. American Association for the Advancement of Science'a üye bilim adamlarının %67'si ateisttir. British Royal Society'nin ise sadece %3'ü tanrıya inanmaktadır. mesela:
Stephen Hawking - physicist
Neils Bohr - physicist
Francis Crick - co-discoverer of DNA
Thomas Edison - inventor
Paul Erdős - mathematician
Richard Feynman - physicist
Sigmund Freud - founder of psychoanalysis
Edmond Halley - astronomer
Peter Higgs - postulated existence of the Higgs boson
Alfred Kinsey - sex researcher
Joseph Lagrange - mathematician
Ernst Mach - physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer - physicist and "father of the atom bomb"
Linus Pauling - co-discoverer of DNA
Carl Sagan - astronomer
Erwin Schrödinger - physicist
Alan Turing - mathematician and "father of computer science"
