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I consider myself an atheist, but technically I'm more of an agnostic. I have core beliefs of how I should live my life, and the existence or non-existence of god is sort of irrelevent unless there is one and he starts speaking directly to me. With or without a god, we're left to muddle through life as best as we can. I'm an engineer, and I don't see any reason or proof of the existence of god, which makes me believe there isn't one, but who knows. I certainly don't think less of anyone who does believe.
The place where I work makes rocket engines (including the ones on the shuttle), lasers, and space power systems. Some of the people here are amazingly smart. Lots of actual rocket scientists. Many of them are also deeply religious. I don't see a conflict there unless you start going into biblical literalism, which most of them don't.
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