1. Science owes its origins to Christianity or Religion

Comment #82418 by darth_atheist on October 26, 2007 at 9:14 am

I would say I have to agree with #2's (sidfaiwu) reply on this matter. To add to it, imagine explanations of observable phenomenon (whether religious or scientific) are like a computer processor. Religion's processor could be represented by an 8086 IBM chip (one of the oldest ones), while modern science's processor would be a certain upgrade to a 3.2 Ghz Dual processor. In other words, religion at one time was so easily viewed as having the answers since it would have been hard to disprove them, given the limited tools they had. Once our tools got better, the explanations got better. Unfortunately, there are people who still wish to use the ancient 8086 processor for running analysis of the data, rather than the better and more efficient and more accurate 3.2 Ghz processor of science.

I think it's time we had an upgrade.

Peace.

2. Richard Dawkins interview with Paula Zahn

Comment #22145 by darth_atheist on February 13, 2007 at 3:50 am

I really thought Dawkins was to the point, and very polite in his correction of the misinformation against atheists. Ellen Johnson didn't do so well when the "Reverend" asked her where atheists got their morals from. I think she should have turned it on him when he said that rape was "bad" in that segment about the rape "article". Ellen should have pointed out that the man said Christians got their morals from the bible, yet he also said rape was wrong, yet the bible condones rape as a moral behavior. That would have made him look like even more of an asshole than he was.