Archive » July 2006
In the first installment of this post, I started to talk briefly about the cognitive differences between atheists and people of faith (whom I will henceforth refer to as Christians, given their clear majority in the world), and I finished by asking a question that I feel I am obligated to investigate.
Though a rare occasion, I’m always surprised to meet someone who doesn’t accept evolution and natural selection. To me, these are matters of fact. The evidence is so convincing that their untruth would mean an arrantly chaotic breakdown of the world as I know it. In short, mentally devastating.
I have decided that there is one, single, paramount reason why I must make sure that my ass is out of the house and off to work promptly on time at 8:30 in the morning. Any later than that, and the sun…
There is one thing I dislike the most about being human, and I think it is that we are so easily swayed by apathy. Psychologically, it is all too easy for us to withdraw our emotional investments, shrug once, and forsake our ability to observe guilt.