Atheists block human progress, hold back science, and pose the greatest threat to science

Well first of all, I disagree with your premises. I didn't set any guidelines, so anything goes, including arguments connected to religion. Secondly, I only made three assertions, that fourth one is something that you made. Thirdly, these three assertions overlap, and are almost like saying the same things. A few points to be made first: - After atheists took over science in the late 1960s and early-to-mid 1970s we immediately stopped finding cures, the life expectancy started growing slower, physics became stuck with empirically untestable hypotheses, science is turning into pseudoscience, and technology started growing slower Some atheists will try to trick people into thinking that "without religion (specifically Christianity) science would be ahead", but the historical evidence shows us the opposite: Life Expectancy in the year 1960 (just a few decades ago): Switzerland (the 1st or 2nd most religious Western country): 71 China (an atheist country undisturbed from Christianity): 43 The truth hurts. Someone living in Europe during the Middle Ages might have lived longer than someone living in China in the year 1960! That's really what a world without religion would be like. - The historical consensus clearly shows that the scientific revolution occurred ONLY because of religion, everything that led up to the scientific revolution would've been viewed to atheists as nothing more than philosophical nonsense and a waste of time to atheists - Estonia (the most atheistic country) has 0 Nobel prizes, Switzerland and Austria (the 1st and 2nd most religious Western countries) have the 1st and 2nd most Nobel prizes in science per capita (among nations with a population size above 1 million) Now arguments to support my assertion that "atheists block human progress, hold back science, and pose the greatest threat to science": - Atheists in general hate science and technology, viewing it as artificial and unnatural, and prefer living in the stone age with grass and trees for reasons of pollution, global warming, etc...they're trying to stop people from using technology and science - Atheists who now run science are trying to turn science into pseudoscience, something about authority and incredulity, rather than something about empirical observations and valid reasoning (an example is the String Theory which only was known as "science" after atheists took over but would've been viewed as pseudoscience normally). Atheists are trying to re-define the definition of science to "whatever authority figures claim is science" instead of "what matches a certain criteria to be science", so science is now nearly 100% just about authority alone, going backwards, turning into pseudoscience! What a great danger the atheist community poses to science. - Atheists who now run science strongly discourage criticism and scrutiny, which use to be viewed as an extremely important principle in science, but isn't anymore, what's viewed as important is authority and incredulity, the reason why criticism and scrutiny use to be an important principle in science is because if something really is true it will stand up to any amount of criticism, so the more people criticize the closer we come towards the truth - Atheists discourage intuition, and belief without evidence, but the historical evidence clearly shows that science grew specifically because of beliefs without evidence (for generating hypotheses). The less hypotheses there are, the less possibility of scientific growth there is. If you don't have any beliefs without evidence it's going to be really really hard to generate hypotheses. An example of this can be seen with Michael Faraday, who only because of his religion believed that magnetism and light were linked as one. If you understand the history of science like I do you would know that the idea that magnetism and light were linked as one was a ridiculous belief BEYOND IMAGINATION during Faraday's time. It was so ridiculous and laughable that almost every scientist ridiculed and laughed at the idea. James Clerk Maxwell was one of the very very few scientists that even merely considered it. JC Maxwell shocked the world when he proved Faraday right, and Maxwell's Equations arguably changed the world more than anything else in human history! During Faraday's time everyone was absolutely CERTAIN that magnetism and light were separate things. Faraday was part of a Sandemanian sect that believed that all things were unified as one, so JUST because of his religious beliefs he insisted that magnetism, light, electricity, and everything else was one. If Faraday been less religious or atheist based on the historical evidence we can conclude that he would've thought "Why would I believe something so ridiculous beyond imagination that magnetism and light are somehow linked as one. During this time-period that I live in everyone is absolutely certain that magnetism and light are distinctly separate things. I don't have any beliefs without evidence". That means without Faraday's religious belief Maxwell's Equations (and all the innovations made possible because of it) would probably not exist in modern times. "Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." - Michael Faraday - There's no NEED to do science, what humans need for survival is food, water, and shelter, they don't need to study philosophy and astronomy (what caused the scientific revolution) for survival, religion was what a created a need to study philosophy and astronomy. So with atheists there's no NEED to study science, since there's NO NEED, without religion there would be less scientific growth. So in conclusion: - We know that science grows when scientists find new ways of empirically testing hypotheses, and we know that atheists are trying to stop people from using technology and without technology it would be very difficult to empirically test hypotheses, therefore atheists holding back science by preventing people from using technology - We know that science grows when scientists go by empirical observations and valid reasoning rather than authority and incredulity, and we know that atheists are trying to turn science into a popularity contest about authority and incredulity alone, thereby holding back science - We know that science grows specifically because of criticism and scrutiny, and we know that atheists are trying to stop people from criticizing and scrutinizing things, thereby holding back science - We know that science grows specifically because of intuition and belief without evidence, and we know that atheists are trying to stop people from having any beliefs without evidence, thereby holding back science - We know that there is no NEED to study science that religion creates a NEED to study science - We know that all the historical evidence and data matches my hypothesis perfectly, that indeed atheists block human progress and hold back science If atheists hadn't taken over science in the late 1960s and early-to-mid 1970s the world would've probably been like a Utopia by now! All world problems would've probably been solved, all negative health conditions cured. Just imagine how fast science, technology, and human progress would grow if authority and incredulity had no value, empirical observations and valid reasoning had the highest value, criticism and scrutiny was strongly encouraged, and intuition and belief without evidence was not discouraged! Science and technology would grow OUT OF CONTROL, really really fast then! We'd be in a Utopia-type society by now, but JUST because of the atheists science and human advancement has been held back. To any atheist reading this: Please just stop doing science, go home and just focus on food, water, and shelter. Just stop doing it if you already participating and if you are considering participating then don't. I knew I had this debate won. It's a wrap!