Religious Atheists
We have studied Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. The process of natural selection, survival of the fittest and the billions of years over which life has evolved to be where it is today. You would expect that this is a part of our common knowledge. Well I guess not.
This week I have been listening to the world reknown biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. There are a number of his talks and conversations on YT that are so eye opening and intriguing. One of the concerns I share with him is that of labelling children. Its a practice to label a Hindu’s child as “a hindu child” at such a young age when they don’t even know what religion means. And they don’t have any chance to look at other religions and take their pick of discard all of them and say..” well I don’t need a God”.
He also shows that statistical data suggests a large number of people believe Jesus is coming back in their lifetime, that the universe is just some thousand years old and everyone who does not believe in Jesus is mistaken. But the most interesting part of his talks are where he questions the need of religion, of God and the consequences of it in today’s world. He talks like a true scientist demanding evidence instead of being asked to have blind faith.
His latest book “The God Delusion”, a New York Times Bestseller, has this and much more. You can view his talks on YT
3) Interview with William Crawley
4) Presentations at TED a) The Universe is queerer than we can suppose b) The Design of Life
Another speaker/author Sam Harris also caught my attention especially because of the name of his 2 books: Letter to a Christian Nation and The End of Faith. It was a pleasure to listen to his talk at the LongNow Foundation where he lays down all the issues he has with religion. His talk at IdeaCity is a good jist of what it means to “believe” something.
I will end this post with a link to a healthy debate between Sam Harris and Reza Aslan. I will leave it to you to find out who Reza is. 
UPDATE: 3 Presidential Candidates DON’T believe in Evolution. God Bless America!!
