Neil DeGrasse Tyson interviewed by out-of-character Stephen Colbert. 1stum+barry+goldwatere.jpg (JPEG Image, 720x540 pixels) - Scaled (74. Free Will - Waking Life (2001) 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009. Faith no more. Read the believers' vox pops. Maryam Namazie Human rights activistI don't remember exactly when I stopped believing in God. Having been raised in a fairly open-minded family in Iran, I had no encounter with Islam that mattered until the Islamic movement took power on the back of a defeated revolution in Iran. I was 12 at the time. I suppose people can go through an entire lifetime without questioning God and a religion that they were born into (out of no choice of their own), especially if it doesn't have much of a say in their lives. If you live in France or Britain, there may never be a need to renounce God actively or come out as an atheist.
Philip Pullman AuthorThe main reason I don't believe in God is the missing evidence. To that extent, I'm an atheist. Kenan Malik Neurobiologist, writer and broadcasterI am an atheist because I see no need for God. Susan Blackmore Psychologist and authorWhat reason for belief could I possibly have? To give me hope of an afterlife?
People-about-religion-atheism-18482548-1280-805.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280x805 pixels) Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com. Before John Lennon imagined “living life in peace,” he conjured “no heaven … / no hell below us …/ and no religion too.” No religion: What was Lennon summoning? For starters, a world without “divine” messengers, like Osama bin Laden, sparking violence. A world where mistakes, like the avoidable loss of life in Hurricane Katrina, would be rectified rather than chalked up to “God’s will.” Where politicians no longer compete to prove who believes more strongly in the irrational and untenable. Where critical thinking is an ideal. In short, a world that makes sense.
In recent years scientists specializing in the mind have begun to unravel religion’s “DNA.” Like our physiological DNA, the psychological mechanisms behind faith evolved over the eons through natural selection. For example, we are born with a powerful need for attachment, identified as long ago as the 1940s by psychiatrist John Bowlby and expanded on by psychologist Mary Ainsworth. Imagine that. J. The logic of science. The impossible game