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To: Chas. who wrote (8840)	3/13/2005 10:30:16 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 32591

objectivethought.com According to Nature 394:313, a recent survey of members of the National Academy of Sciences showed that 72% are outright atheists, 21% are agnostic and only 7% admit to belief in a personal God.

To: Chas. who wrote (8840)	3/13/2005 2:12:05 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Respond to of 32591

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. (Sigmund Freud) The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. (Albert Einstein, letter to Hoffman and Dukas, 1946) I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. (Charles Darwin)