A Theoretical Astrophysicist Illustrates Why There Are Almost No Genuine Atheists

I propose this as a rule of thumb: You can say you're an atheist if you want, but the rest of us have no warrant to call you that until you can show some evidence that you know something about the God you claim to reject. Perhaps there should be some sort of qualifying exam.

I've long been struck by how reliably the self-described atheists among our professional scientists turn out, on inspection, to reject not belief in God -- no God that I would recognize, anyway -- but a cartoon of ...