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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (28397)	4/14/2010 1:11:45 PM
From: Solon	2 Recommendations Respond to of 28931

Interesting research reported by the good people at "nogods.org" April 1, 2004 Evolutionary Link Found Between Humans, Creationists Thanks to a recent discovery by scientists at MIT's biology laboratory, scientists now know that humans and creationists share a common evolutionary ancestor, and may even be the same species. Biologist and human Mary Jenner announced the findings at a press conference held in MIT's biology research laboratory. The key to the discovery was the fact that, despite behavioral and cognitive differences, both humans and creationists have 46 chromosomes, and are able to interbreed to produce viable offspring. There are also a number of pieces of fossil evidence to back up the findings. Before the discovery, most scientists had thought the two groups were unrelated, and probably different species. Scientists had based this belief on certain behaviors found in creationists but not in humans: creationists tend to congregate in stone building where they perform strange rituals involving pleasing a mythical super-creationist who lives in the sky, and also tend to not use modern scientific methodology to validate knowledge. But the new results show these differences may be merely learned behavior, and not indicative of a deeper genetic difference. Creationists and some humans have spoken out against the report. Even the report's author is disappointed by the results, “I don't like to think I'm related to creationists,” says Jenner, “but if that's what the facts show, that's what the facts show.”

To: average joe who wrote (28397)	4/15/2010 9:17:55 AM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Respond to of 28931

"My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all." - Richard Dawkins 1. "The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church." - Ferdinand Magellan 2. "The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln 3. "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." - Thomas Jefferson 4. "Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." - Sigmund Freud 5. "There is so much in the bible against which every insinct of my being rebels, so much so that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end." - Helen Keller 6. "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." - Gene Roddenberry 7."A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows." - Samuel Clemens 8. "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein 9. "It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so." - Ernestine Rose 10. "All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemingway 11. "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Richard Dawkins 12. "Fear is the parent of cruelty; therefore it is no wonder if religion and cruelty have gone hand-in-hand." - Bertrand Russell 13. "Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong'." - unknown 14. "Man has created God in his own image." - unknown 15. "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." - Benjamin Franklin 16. "I don't believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life." - Andrew Carnegie 17. "The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life." - Sigmund Freud 18. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger 19. "Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." - Isaac Asimov 20. "My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all." - Richard Dawkins associatedcontent.com