Evolution Baby
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages.
Evolution is a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.
...opposition… comes from an exceedingly retarded, primitive version of religion which unfortunately is at present undergoing an epidemic in the United States.
There is just no evidence for the existence of God. From a biological point of view, there are lots of different theories about why we have this extraordinary predisposition to believe in supernatural things. One suggestion is that the child mind is, for very good Darwinian reasons, susceptible to infection the same way a computer is. The child brain is preprogrammed by natural selection to obey and believe what parents and other adults tell it.
The God delusion possesses adults. A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
Bush and Bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.
Natural selection is about as non-random a force as you could possibly imagine. Mutation is random only in the sense that it is not directed specifically toward improvement. It is natural selection that directs evolution toward improvement.
Read the whole article here: The Atheist
Hola Matías.
Estuvimos en la AOI, Association of Illustrators, en brick lane. Aquí exponían lo best of british contemporary illustration, es decir, lo mejorcito que han hecho los diseñadores gráficos en inglaterra en el 2006.
El que más me gustó uno que se titulaba "don't believe the lies" en el que aparecían los hermanos gallager dándose un besito. 125 pounds. Estos ingleses...
Saludos Matis.