(January 12, 2015 at 4:20 pm)robvalue Wrote: There's the trapping of every superstition: "If I stop doing it this way, and it was really true, then bad stuff will happen! Best not take the risk, and keep doing it this way."
It's a very easy trap to fall into.
The worst part is sometimes I get in fights with atheists who think because I say things like you just did, that I am somehow calling for force to outlaw religion.
Once you read Dawkins God Delusion and Stenger's "New Atheism" and you accept evolution as fact which it is, I find it silly to get upset over stating facts.
Our species gap fills and to pretend it is good, even accepting that it is part of reality is like pretending a phantom pain is real.
It is understandable, for example that humans thought the earth was flat. But it makes no sense to hold such a false perception today now that we know better.
