PS. I’m taking down the link on that page, because I no longer use it on my main site. Good catch.

I wonder if their god helps them compile faster or gives them some insight into hidden APIs. Perhaps there’s a little known interpretation of the gospels that teaches a better threading or GUI paradigm…

The loudest majority on Digg et al may well be atheists, but this is certainly not carried over the home pages I have visited.

I am sorry I never made it sufficiently clear that it was your personal blog, I am sure few people were confused over this thought.

First off, I don’t use that plugin in my new theme so I need to change that link. Secondly, the blog with the plugin is my professional site, and the other one is wholly my personal site.

I have a hard time seeing many programmers as theists, and anyone who perouses sites like Digg and Reddit can see that the loudest majority tend to be atheistic.

It almost makes me laugh to see more atheists that care about the existence of God than many theists.

I should point out, I am not using this post to attack religion (I save that for other posts…), but to express something which has intrigued me of late. From now on I will try to keep stats as to the number and type of sites I visit and if they have any obvious religious orientation.

My hypothesis is that people who design things from scratch all day are biased to see a designer.

Science per se works from the view point of skepticism and adversarial pursuit of truth. It is more condusive to the analyzing of assumptions and working from first principles.

For what it’s worth sysadmins (who I work with now) tend to be more atheist than programmers since its hard believe in a benevolent deity or intelligent design when you try to manage computer networks, fight computer viruses and configure operating systems.

My 2 pesos.