Scientists are atheists’ “gods”

This misconception arises because the religious don’t understand that they have a different way of determining what is true than atheists.  By and large, religious people determine what they think is true by authority. They pick an authority to follow and that authority tells then whether something is true or not. In the case of most fundamentalist Christians, that authority is the Bible, hence the bumper-sticker maxim “The Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it.”

This would be disturbing enough, but faithers not only pick a source to blindly follow as a source of truth, but they wrongly assume that the rest of us must do the same thing, but with a different authority. They think we pick a few scientists and make THEM the infallible source of truth, but that’s not the case. Many atheists understand the scientific method of formulating a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis with evidence, and publishing your findings for peer review and replication. It is that PROCESS upon which many atheists rely for finding truth, not any scientist in particular.