Door-To-Door Atheism

[bloodyrosemccoy]

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Phil Plait from The Bad Astronomy Blog links to a very good article by Lauren Becker on why young-Earth creationism isn’t just an idiotic belief, but also a scary one.

 

As someone who holds the Scientific Method as a core belief—as somebody who cannot believe something contrary to the evidence—I find that every once in a while I have to post an evangelical scientist link. I say that I respect everyone’s right to believe whatever they believe, but I may not always respect the beliefs themselves, and sometimes their implications and potential consequences make me downright nervous.

 

Also, I’d just like to point out that when I look at a mind-blowingly awesome image of the cosmos and say, in reverent tones, “And people wonder why I’m an atheist,” I am dead serious. Life is so much cooler that way. You cannot use that garbage about how you must believe in a god when you’re holding a newborn baby in your hands, because I don’t, and it makes it even more incredible. That’s the one big misconception about skeptics—that they’re sad and dead inside—so I work hard to debunk that whenever I can.

 

Trust me, folks. The real version of the Grand Canyon, the 300 million year old one with the fossils and the erosion and the cryptobiotic soil, will make you happy to be honest with yourself and be a lot cooler into the bargain.

Comments

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

People are scary. You can believe what you want to believe in the privacy of your own head, fine, but when you use it to formulate public policy or laws or try to force it on anyone else, there's a problem.

Astronomy pix of the day make nifty desktop wallpaper, though! I change mine on whim, and almost always from that site. It makes me happy!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

That's what makes me worry. And you see the harm done on smaller levels--parents refusing to take their sick children to the hospital and opting to just wait for God's will, or the teaching of willful ignorance. Tough stuff.

Yeah, the pictures of the day are incredible. I stick 'em on my desktop, too, but they have to take turns with the other thousands of images in my wallpaper program. Just for variety. ;)