Religion

Today I get a visit from the Jehovah Witnesses.. most people shut the door on them but being an inquisitive fella i always like to have a chat to them.. Now 99/100 times they are polite, beautiful people. (the other 1% was a bloke who said my house was blessed and god lived here... or something.. he had weird axe murder eyes and came across way too freaky so I sent him on his way).

Now I am a man of science and know that we evolved the Darwinian way of natural selection due to some pretty hard evidence. Science doesn't explain how the first cell was formed (yet) but has very conclusive evidence that we all have a common ancestor. Check out these two for some light reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life

After demonstrating my limited knowledge of evolution they proceeded down a different track... have you noticed that this world is becoming a more dangerous place.... really? Well let me see.. From my point of view i was born in 1977 and since then i have a had a happy child hood, suffered no debilitating diseases, had 2 deaths in the family from natural causes (although these days there is no natural causes). Dangerous... well i think the wild west was more dangerous, I think fighting in ww1 or ww2, Vietnam was more dangerous, I think having a shorter life span was more dangerous.. So I think the world is getting safer.

I think paranoia is getting greater but I don't think religion will solve that!,

I think people are not bringing up their kids properly and the family unit is degrading but I think religion could solve that.

What i think we need is a forum where people can meet to discuss family values but I don't think it should be mixed with the narrow mindedness of todays religion. Do we call it a community group..? because this forum must be stripped of faith and instead must be replaced with trust.. and that trust must be earned and not blindly accepted as gospel.

"The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments and a passionate unwillingness to do so" - Sam Harris (Science must destroy religion)

That quote perfectly describes my encounter with Jehovah witnesses. Some people adore faith... whereas i think faith puts the blinkers on and closes your mind to other possibilities. You should always accept new ideas and process them yourself. Take what makes sense to you and when you find what makes sense don't close the doors... leave them open, a better idea may come along.