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A breath of fresh air.
No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future
Alok Jha, science correspondent
Monday January 1, 2007
The Guardian
People's fascination for religion and superstition will disappear within a few decades as television and the internet make it easier to get information, and scientists get closer to discovering a final theory of everything, leading thinkers argue today.
The web magazine Edge (Edge) asked more than 150 scientists and intellectuals: "What are you optimistic about?" Answers included hope for an extended human life span, a bright future for autistic children, and an end to violent conflicts around the world.
Philosopher Daniel Denett believes that within 25 years religion will command little of the awe it seems to instil today. The spread of information through the internet and mobile phones will "gently, irresistibly, undermine the mindsets requisite for religious fanaticism and intolerance".
Biologist Richard Dawkins said that physicists would give religion another problem: a theory of everything that would complete Albert Einstein's dream of unifying the fundamental laws of physics. "This final scientific enlightenment will deal an overdue death blow to religion and other juvenile superstitions."
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4/28/2008, 9:57 am
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Re: A breath of fresh air.
Isaac Asimov
"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night"
-Isaac Asimov, Russian-born - American author
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1/8/2009, 1:57 am
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Re: A breath of fresh air.
I have placed a call to the moderators to try and stop you and your boyfriend wasting valuable memory on this forum.
It is a discussion forum not a 'cut and paste' forum
Please have some common sense and stop.
Thank you
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1/8/2009, 6:25 pm
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Re: A breath of fresh air.
The problem is Whiner, you won't discuss anything.
Your personal attacks and sexual innuendo add nothing
to this site, The many foreign visitors must be very
dissapointed. By the way, I am heterosexual with five
children, would you please stop your personal vendetta
against me. Again, you are off topic, but thank you for
some good grammer, it makes it easier for overseas
visitors to understand. There is nothing wrong with cut
and paste, its used on lots of sites to prove a point.
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1/9/2009, 11:17 am
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Re: A breath of fresh air.
your partner must be blind, who would want to f.u.c.k. you five times.
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