Science will defeat religion
What could define god is thinking of god as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that god. They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible. There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.
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Smut for Smut
A US college atheist group, Atheist Agenda, is offering students pornography in exchange for Bibles and Korans. The group calls the exchange "Smut for Smut," prompting prayers and protests from Christian students at the University of Texas San Antonio. The Atheist Agenda started at UTSA in 2005. "We consider the Bible to be a very negative force in the history of the world,” student activist Ryan Walker said. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/porn-for-bibles-at-texas_n_482206.htmlStudy: Liberals, Atheists Are Unnatural, Intelligent
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on political and religious behaviors with IQ from a large US sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. Religion, the theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid, Kanazawa said. "Because humans are paranoid, they become more religious, and they see the hands of god everywhere," Kanazawa said. Humans had a keen interest in the survival of their offspring. The conservative approach -- looking out for the people around you first -- fits with the evolutionary picture more than liberalism, Kanazawa said. "It is unnatural for humans to be concerned about total strangers." he said. George Washington University professor James Bailey said that these preferences may stem from a desire to show superiority or elitism, which also has to do with IQ. Aligning oneself with "unconventional" philosophies may be "ways to communicate that you are pretty smart," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence/index.html
