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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:00 AM

Manufacturing belief

The origin of religion is in our heads, explains developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert. First we figured out how to make tools, then a supernatural being.

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  • Monday, May 14, 2007 10:33 PM

    What Is This? Atheist of the Week Club?

    Another bonehead intellectual with a closed mind whose ego will not allow him to consider that there might be a limit to what his own brain can encompass,

    Because anything outside their own experience is "supernatural," members of the church of atheism put such labels on the experiences and knowledge of others.

    Why do these evangelists feel compelled to spout off about this universe of reason - every secret of which they will someday master - in which they dwell? I find it really boring and small.

    Atheism is the church of the no-god belief system. They proclaim,"It's a FACT!" Just like other religious fanatics proclaim the facts of Jesus or Allah or the golden tablets or what or whomever.

    But it isn't a fact. They want it to be a fact. They believe it is a fact. But you cannot prove there is no God, whatever label or word you want to use for God. Perhaps we have such cells in our brains so that we can always tap into the truth of the matter, should we so desire.

    I know some fine, upstanding human beings who describe themselves as atheists. Good people. I don't care. It's fine if they want to belong to that church.

    But why do we have to hear about it every week here?

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