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. The logic of science. The impossible game