The Ideas Of Atheism In America

Christianity and that idea of religion have been a center point for the United States government for a long time, but what if the idea of Atheism took over the country? The ideas of always wanting an answer for something instead of leaving things alone could bring about new innovations and technologies that would help the Western world out possibly to eliminate long problems we have incurred. An atheist may not have an idea of the afterlife or a God being in charge which could bring a positive charge into the western culture that could reshape how we view all aspects of life. This being from a basic everyday life all the way up to our governments being the change we need to make politics less corrupt. Having the idea of atheism take over the …show more content…
Knowing these statistics shows that a growing number of scientist are atheist and taking these beliefs into their field of wanting to prove everything with science over using a scapegoat as the answer. One of the greatest scientists we have ever had Stephen Hawking is a non-believer who has redefined how we look at the universe. In his book The Grand Design he even goes as saying "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going" (alternet). Showing how we don't need a fairy tell the story of religion to explain what we can comprehend. His ideas have changed the entire way we look at the universe and is on the edge of explaining why the universe even exists. With these discoveries, he has made throughout his life by not needing a God to explain everything throughout his life, he has used the beliefs of wanting everything explained by facts or science over mystery or myth. A man called the found of computer science Alan Turing also made great impacts of the discovery and innovation aspect of …show more content…
So, what this is implying then, that everything that has happened or has happened then should be able to be explained. With these thoughts then people who have these thoughts would have a better drive to prove everything with facts, then opinions based on old books that show what a God has done to create and influence the world. A survey done by CNN showed that 58 percent of Americans would vote for an Atheist president candidate (CNN). This may seem irrelevant to helping our science side of moving forward, but with the commander and chief being a man of Atheist principles this would help his ideas be spread to all parts of government. Leading to it sprinkle down to the science area being led by someone who would more likely give more funding for them to work to explain more mysterious, that could be