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I suspect that is because tech people tend to be smart.

• WorldWideWayne 12y ago
  There are many, many smart scientists and other people in the present day and throughout history who are also religious, so there goes that theory. Einstein was not an atheist. Neither is Neil Tyson. The smartest people know what they don't know and seem to have some humility with respect to the question of human existence.
  • blissofbeing 12y ago
    Smart people may have been, and may be religious, but I don't agree that _many_ smart people are religious, at least not dogmatically religious. In my experience _many_ smart people are not religious. As is the OPs experience. You can always find outliers. And I wouldn't call Einstein religious, at least not the late Einstein. Nor would I call having "humility with respect to the question of human existence" being religious. Basic inquiry is a trait of smart people. Dogmatic religion requires, maybe even demands for its own existence, that most enquiry (i.e. the "why" questions) be put aside on faith alone. Smart people just tend to not accept the "faith" argument. Smart people tend toward experimentation and logic, over blind faith.
    • WorldWideWayne 12y ago
      You seem to be conflating religiousness with the belief in God or in the possibility of God. There are many smart people, not outliers, who are not atheists.