Quote Originally Posted by gismo
I don't want to get bogged down in semantics here, but I think it is safe to say that there are 2 kinds of atheist, ones who have given proper thought to the notion of god, who may have read up on famous atheist works which challenge the notion, read up on different branches of science and then came to conclude that they don't believe there is a god as the evidence against is too strong.
There is no way that reading up on various scientific topics could ever provide you with any evidence against the existence of a god. I say this as an atheist and someone spends a lot of free time reading scientific literature.