(June 28, 2010 at 11:31 am)darkwolf176 Wrote: I see evolution as a natural part of our necessary (at first) cultural evolution that now has really overstayed it's welcome. It is now something that humanity as a whole should have outgrown many years ago.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13...gests.html
Yeah, I agree. Religion and magic were useful when we didn't have any scientific explanations for stuff. As the late great Levi-Strauss put it, wrong explanations are often better than no explanation at all. But religion has ceased to have any function other than social control- imo a bad function.
What seems to be happening world-wide is that atheism is growing, but so is fundamentalism. The middle ground- the position that religion and rationality can somehow be reconciled- is being squeezed. I only hope that we, rather than the fundies, end up being the winners. Imo its by no means certain that we will.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
