Good suggestion regarding the blog and I’ll check out the books you mention. God Delusion is sort of a relentless, logical assault on religion in general. It’s a good read and it will probably turn an agnostic person into an atheist. It had that effect on me, anyway.

I have the book God Delusion, I just haven’t read it yet. Though I have read a bunch of the other “atheist” books making the rounds recently, including, Breaking the Spell, God is Not Great, and, the one I liked the most, The End Of Faith.

I’ve heard it said that people who disagree with evolution (such as intelligent design proponents) don’t understand evolution. Having read and watched many arguments for and against I would have to agree, in general, with that assertion. But then again I don’t have the baggage of having to believe in a great dictator in the sky judging our every action and, even worse, our every thought.

An aside: Another suggestion for this blog, would be to have a list of recent comments, since this comment is attached to a thread half buried by more recent posts.

The author, Richard Dawkins, points out, among other things, the absurdity of ‘intelligent design’: namely, if the world is too complex to be the result of evolution, then who designed God himself, a cloud being that is more complex than anything we can fathom and who can supposedly read our thoughts? The concept of intelligent design literally undermines their own religious case. Not that logic stops most religious fanatics (including American Talibangelists) anyway, but it’s worth pointing out their illogic next time they blather on about intelligent design or that the bible is the ‘word of God’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsikz0n1uDE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=N9hy7oOhHxk

• Ramachandran, the Temporal Lobes and God
• Richard Dawkins: How Science Differs from Religion
• The evolution of eyes
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