(May 24, 2009 at 10:52 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(May 24, 2009 at 9:42 am)lrh9 Wrote: As a computer scientist, I believe that people are biological supercomputers that evolved due to natural selection. The thing about computers is that they can be programmed. A lot of children are programmed at a very early age to believe in religion and behave according to its precepts. They are even programmed to resist attempts to reprogram themselves according to reason and logic.
Shouldn't that be, "As a computer scientist and rabid mass-murderer"? ... I think that, as a scientist, precision is important don't you?
Kyu
Only the precision necessary to the task at hand. Here that is answering the question of why people are religious. If the questions was: "Why are people religious and what are we going to do about it?", then I would have said that people are programmed to be religious and I favor the solution of wiping out the ones that want to proselytize to those who don't want to hear it.
