You guys are ALL full of shit.
Atheists think they are so smart but in reality they have no more proof of their beliefs than Christians do. You are all just as brainwashed and part of a cult as you claim Christians to be, science is based on faith and not fact in any sense that Christianity is not, it is a religion as much as any other.
Why? Do you know the basic principles of science?
1. Use your experience: Consider the problem and try to make sense of it. Look for previous explanations. If this is a new problem to you, then move to step 2.
2. Form a conjecture: When nothing else is yet known, try to state an explanation, to someone else, or to your notebook.
3. Deduce a prediction from that explanation: If you assume 2 is true, what consequences follow?
4. Test: Look for the opposite of each consequence in order to disprove 2. It is a logical error to seek 3 directly as proof of 2. This error is called affirming the consequent.
What does this mean? All scientific conclusions are based on previous scientific conclusions. This is circular logic. You cannot prove something by using the very thing you are trying to prove as evidence. All scientific information is based on FAITH in science and has no logical proof behind it what-so-ever. You know who recognizes this? Almost every credible scientist you can think of that's who. It was pointed out by David Hume a philosopher and scientist one of the master minds behind quantum mechanics. The only people who ignore this are stubborn cult leaders like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
I am sick of uneducated morons parading around acting as if they are superior because they are Atheists, your beliefs are no more credible than anyone else's. Not only do you have no understanding of logic and reason the majority have little to no understanding of the science they are claiming to be proof of their belief system.
Its not really a circular logic. There are two principles in science; laws and theories. Laws are universal and cannot be derived, like relativity. Theories are formed from observations of the real world, such as gravity or the model of the atom. Scientific models are built up around theories and make many predictions. As science progresses these predictions are put to the test and a lot of the time hold true, there is no faith involved in real world testing as you can actually see the results yourself to confirm your prediction.
And I can't find anything that links David Hume to quantum mechanics, probably because quantum mechanics didn't really come around until about 100 years ago.