Comment by Cara Coleen on January 22, 2011 at 7:56pm

Featured.

Comment by Katie Roberts on January 22, 2011 at 8:27pm

Deservedly so.

Comment by Radu Andreiu on January 23, 2011 at 3:08am

Not that it's important to the message of your blog, but I think you might like to know that the Sun isn't just a couple of millions of kilometers away. It's actually almost 150 million km away, the distance that light travels in about 8 and a half minutes. Therefore, when you look at a sunset, you are actually seeing the Sun as it was 8 and a half minutes ago.

Comment by Jaume on January 23, 2011 at 3:23am

Agreed that mutual extermination does nothing to forward knowledge.

 

Hmmm... the stirrup? Ballistics? Nuclear fission?

Comment by Albert Bakker on January 23, 2011 at 3:24am

This would make for a nice christmas message to a pro-lifer. I'd advise to deliver it dressed with sufficient body armour though.

Comment by Jason on January 23, 2011 at 10:17am

“despite thousands of years of inquiry by billions of brains, there are still some very vexing issues that we haven't yet answered”

And isn’t something that in just the last hundred years the human species has gained more knowledge then the thousands of years and billions of people that have lived before it. We have learned so much so fast, I’m hoping we will learn even more in the next 30 – 50 years. Hopefully I will be around to see it.

Comment by Snowcrash on January 23, 2011 at 12:17pm

I had no memory prior to being born why would i have any after death ?

And yes i hope to be around for at least another 50 to 60 years to see religion die and science grow faster and faster.

 

Comment by Heather Spoonheim on January 23, 2011 at 6:40pm

I have to admit that I have no idea of there is any potential for our consciousness to somehow continue after our biological death, but to date no one has managed to communicate back from the other side, no matter how many boutique mediums claim otherwise.  As near as I can tell all the people claiming any knowledge of what might be 'on the other side' seem to be endowed with such incredible knowledge that it perplexes me why they are so awful with financial matters and need my donation.

Comment by M on January 23, 2011 at 7:12pm

This is eloquent.  (I'd like to point out that atheists don't go around killing to defend disbelief.) 

 

Also, I was thinking just last night: "How can it be that you can present a religious believer with a sensible, rational argument and they just won't believe it?"  I realized that everyone processes information in anywhere from slightly different to radically different ways, and what it really comes down to is that there is a large percentage of people who are just not bright enough to grasp sensibility and rationality.  They just literally do not have the necessary amount of neural connections developed to "get it."  There will always be stupid.  We just have to fervently hope they are not all stupid and violent.  It's kind of demoralizing.

Comment by Jarrod Payne on January 24, 2011 at 12:42am

All i can say is i agree. Love this post. I encourages my classes to imagine if they would have the same religious beliefs they if they grew up completely alone on a island and generally even the religious ones agree that they wouldnt. But ask them if what they believe, virgin birth etc., and they insist it is. They dont see the contradiction or the craziness of it!! As you say, it just seems sad that despite this and the massive progress of science people will still kill each other because of thier particular crazy story...

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