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Originally Posted by oats
some terminology is getting confused here. atheism doesn't exclude believing in anything other than a god. unless you are equating the common belief of what ghosts are to a god, then atheists can believe in ghosts no problem. just like they can (and many of them do) believe in aliens.
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I have to disagree....based on the sheer amount of galaxies in the observable universe many scientists have come to the conclusion that it is a mathematical certainty that some other life form exists. Believing in God based on no evidence whatsoever is not the same as observing the universe and coming to a conclusion based on what can be seen. No scientist worth the title is saying they believe aliens definitely exist, that would completely go against their profession, a scientist works on facts and evidence they are just saying that the evidence points to the existence of other life. That is very different than blind belief in God or ghosts.