Posted 5:25 PM
Time to speak of religion again.

You're probably thinking, we've been through this. Not that I doubt the existance of God (in buddism there are no god / gods) in someone elses' religion, it's just been popping up in conversation recently. *ahem*.

In the beginning there was nothing. In the Jewish/Christian/Islam religions, we have one god. In the Chinese myths there is the primodial soup and a very big egg (which is more or less scientifically accurate) and the supreme being that was born from the egg. The Christian creation took 6 days (plus a day off), and the asian myths usually involve indefinite amounts of time where the being from the egg grows up and use his body to create the world.

In a strictly scientific view of the world, the world can be created in 25 words or less. The positive energy (literally) of the beginning of the universe provided the energy and the rest took care of itself. Well, maybe more than that. It happened in a series of outrageous flukes. Fundamental constants in physics that made water bind the way it does, and carbon able to take on the amount of hydrogen molecules in a hexagon shape - the only way for it to be able to sustain LIFE. You can say that the universe (our own anyway, pushed aside the multiverse theories) is "designed" for life.

Simple single cellular organisms bounded together and started reproducing themselves in order to save their genetic information. And then they started to specialize, life became more complex...and in the midst of this complexity they started developing cells for controlling the rest of the cells. From these cells (the nervous system) arose intelligence. Intellect gave us communities, a group of people who choose to live together. And here comes the bomb.

Religion exist to give the leader power over the people he governs.

Religion exist as a bridge between complete ignorance of the world and the complete understanding of the universe.

In a human term, it is a PHASE. It came during the adolescence of humanity, and it will be gone when we truly mature.

By the way, I'm not an atheist.