In the both the physical sciences and social sciences atheism has had a negative effect on science (see: Atheism and science).

Some of the most notable examples of atheistic/agnostic pseudosciences that exist or have existed within the physical science and social science communities are:

## Contents

* 1 Physical sciences
* 2 Medical sciences
* 3 Social sciences
* 4 Technology
* 5 Postsecularism and science
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes

## Physical sciences[edit]

None of these are actually about religion, atheism, or agnosticism, though people of various religious persuasions, including atheism and agnosticism, often take strong positions on these scientific subjects.

* Evolution (biology)

* Darwinism (biology)

* Pangenesis (biology)

* Lysenkoism (biology)

* Punctuated Equilibrium (biology)

* Old earthism (geology)

## Medical sciences[edit]

See: Atheism and medicine (Traditional Chinese medicine)

## Social sciences[edit]

* Communism (economics)

* Marxism (economics)

* Marxism-Leninism (economics)

* Socialism (economics)

* Psychoanalysis (psychology)

* Secularization thesis (sociology)

## Technology[edit]

* Atheism and cryonics
* Atheism and transhumanism

## Postsecularism and science[edit]

See also: Desecularization

Postsecularism refers to a number of theories concerning the persistence or resurgence of religious beliefs or practices in the present.

The Science Recorder declared in 2015:

“  |  Science and religion are often presented as opposing world views, but a recent study in the American Sociological Review published Jan. 29, suggests that for some Americans, this binary construction (i.e. science vs. religion) is a false dichotomy.

Authors Timothy O’Brien, an assistant professor at the University of Evansville and co-author Shiri Noy, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wyoming, call these Americans the “Post-Seculars,” and were surprised to find that one in five Americans belongs to this group, a sizable number given that most of these individuals have gone “unnoticed before in endless rounds of debates pitting” science against religion.

According to O’Brien, “[The Post-Seculars] are pretty knowledgeable and appreciative about science and technology but…are also very religions and reject certain scientific theories.”[1]

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## See also[edit]

* Atheists and the National Academy of Sciences
* Atheism, naturalism and the origin of the universe
* The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
* Atheist cults
* Atheism and irrationality
* Rebuttals to atheist arguments
* Atheism and gullibility
* Atheism is a religion
* Scientism
* Methodological naturalism
* Atheism and deception
* Theories of evolution
* Evolution as a secular origins myth

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ Study discusses emerging trend in science-versus-religion debate: Post-Secularism by Chiamaka Nwakeze | Science Recorder | January 30, 2015