1. Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years

Comment #64416 by zasurein on August 20, 2007 at 3:08 am

Life was obviously designed; by abiogenesis or whichever process will we find to have begun life. And life was improved/modified/further designed by evolution. Evolution is far more logical than any type of supernatural being and many many orders of magnitude more likely. Even if life had been designed by a 'God', it would be hard to see how it would not have evolved since then. And even if there were a god, evolution is a far more efficient and effective way of checking that life 'works' than supernatural design. So really, thsoe who believe in such a god implicate that a near on impossibly complex being exists for no reason whatsoever. Humans look to human-like 'supernatural' beings for an explanation of design, why couldn't completely natural processes do the same job of 'design'?

2. Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris: The Unholy Trinity ... Thank God.

Comment #63579 by zasurein on August 15, 2007 at 12:52 am

While the article is positive and assuredly another display of atheism finally beginning to show its influence, I can't help but cringe at the usage of statistics... perhaps it isn't prudent to presume, seeing as (apparently) 'at least 10% of Americans identify themselves as atheists', that 10% of every subdivision will also be atheists? I'm sure those fundamentalist faithfuls which exist would endeavour to befriend mainly those who share their views, etc., etc.