Hattix

This is my blog. Obvious enough, isn’t it? I’m going to cover a hell of a lot of topics, all the way from the intricacies of computer hardware to the nuances of science (with the occasional kicking at religion). This isn’t a focused blog, it’s the barely-coherent ravings of a mad skeptic.

 So I post now after hearing perhaps the most incredibly stupid thing that could be thought. It goes like this, and I do not make this up. “Science tells us how, religion tells us why”. No, really. That apple that fell? God did it, not gravity. The Galapagos finches? God did it, not evolution. Moon went around Earth? God did it, not orbital mechanics.

 This isn’t just laughably stupid, it’s dangerous thinking. Religion, really, is just pretending. They can’t even properly answer the question of, out of the three thousand other gods, spirits, deities, demiurges that mankind has ever invented, why their particular one is so special and better than all the others. This is dangerous, it’s ignorant and it has and will cause suffering, death and war.

You either take the world and fit your ideas around it, changing those ideas if the world doesn’t agree or take your ideas and fit the world around it, ignoring the world if it doesn’t agree. I think you can work out which part of that I subscribe to.