Why There Almost Certainly Is No God

When you have some time, check out this great (and lengthy) article about the theology, religion, science and politics. Intelligent Design, Stem Cell research, Evolution, Creationism, Politics: all covered.

Some other fine quotes:

  • The political ascendancy today values embryonic cells over adult people.
  • My scientific colleagues have additional reasons to declare emergency. Ignorant and absolutist attacks on stem cell research are just the tip of an iceberg. What we have here is nothing less than a global assault on rationality, and the Enlightenment values that inspired the founding of this first and greatest of secular republics.
  • The first cause cannot have been an intelligence – let alone an intelligence that answers prayers and enjoys being worshipped.
  • how could it ever have been a good idea to postulate, in explanation for the existence of improbable things, a designer who would have to be even more improbable?

We are not the center of the universe, and it does not exist solely for us to gaze at and ponder.