God is a virus and religions are its carriers which spread it through hypnotizing the people. This is the conclusion of experiences of Dr. Derrel Ray who had been involved in church work for a long time and is a psychotherapist using hypnosis to treat psychological disorders. His findings are important for the whole humanity for the reason of his involvement in the church work. Now, he is of the opinion that the God virus enters the mind through ears in the early childhood, germinates there and comes out of the mouth to spread the virus to nascent minds. As a psychotherapist, his opines that the church services are carefully structured to achieve the same sort of hypnotic effect he was inducing in his patients. I fully agree with opinions of Dr. Ray.
Faith in God work just like the way infections do for spreading from person to person, and its carriers - the religions, hypnotize people to instill guilt in their minds and make them surrender before God for security.
The greatest asset of human race is the highly developed intellect through which it understands, works and progresses using logical derivations. This may be termed as 'humanism'. Since religions are devoid of logical derivations, these have found the way of hypnotizing people to have faith and forget about logic. The faith and logic work in ways just opposite to each other, religions are pitched against humanism to make it devoid of its greatest asset- the intellect. Thus, religions are working to kill intellectualism.
If the religions are allowed to have their way, future humans shall be without brains and their working shall be based on just the faith in what others tell them. All sciences shall die out, and the progress of human civilization and culture made through sciences shall be undone. This shall make the humanity a wild wandering race again where might shall be right and plundering shall be the lifestyle. It is now, we need to act fast to save the humanity from onslaughts of religions.
Religions are designed the way they are and shall be working to achieve their goal through hypnotizing the people. Their stings carry the virus of God which need be eliminated to save the humanity. It is like fighting malaria by making mosquitoes devoid of the malaria infection.
The Religion Virus: Why we believe in God: An evolutionist explains religion's incredible hold on humanity. Religions have negative consequences on intelligence and personality through suppressing curiosity of the human brain. A brain without curiosity is a brain without a sting and hence is ineffective. Religions instill supernatural things in the minds in place of natural things and their scientific explanations - the backbones of human civilization.
All theists hate scientific and logical arguments in understanding nature while keep on enjoying the fruits of scientific thinking in their daily living. Thus, theists are the most ungrateful creatures on this earth.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
Knowledge versus Faith in Religions
I have a copy each of a compilation of all the Vedas, Vishnu Puran, Geeta, Quran and Bible on my bookshelf and people visiting me get surprised to see these and ask me point blank, "You claim to be an atheist, yet why do you have all these religious books?" and I quickly reply, "To know the religions." And I believe that is the general trend about all the atheists on the globe. Conversely, I visit my religious friends and foes and find them boasting about their own religion and criticizing all others, without ever reading a book on the subjects. Their knowledge about religions remains limited to what they learn from their narrow communities.
Such an instance is confirmed by a recent survey wherein atheists and agnostics are found to surpass all other groups in their knowledge of religions. Now, we are here to survey what and why we must know about religions.
Whether one believes in some concept or refuses to believe, he/she is supposed to know it. Since, present human society has a majority of believers in religions and God, it s all the more important for the non-believers to know religions and God to counter the false beliefs of the majority. The survey also proves that mostly the ignorant people are believers in religions and God.
Knowledge is power of humanity over all other species of life, and through it only we come to differentiate between the right and the wrong. And surely, knowledge does not mean believing. It is all the more needed for not believing.
Believing in something distracts the person from knowing about the alternatives, and deeper the faith more is the distraction. Multiplicity of religions proves fallacy of universality of religions and God which every religion claims. I mean to say if religions are there to preach the universal facts of life, as they claim, why there should be so many versions. This proves that some religions are misleading the people and so the believers must try to know more of other religions.
Most of the religious persons know more of the history rather than the preachings and their basis of their own religions, while the latter must play more important role in developing faith in the religion. Through history, these religions create an alliance of followers with the pioneer of the religion and then prove the pioneer to be a great soul and make him their deity. While an atheist probes the teachings and judges the religion on their basis. For the religious persons, they develop a faith in the person rather than his teachings while their followers are supposed to follow the teachings. As a result, religious followers worship the pioneering persons ignoring their teachings in their lifestyles.
Converse to the above point, science is being adopted in everyday life of all of the humanity without knowledge of its fundamental principles and theories. This proves that science has more followers than the religions. And the atheism evolves from scientific analysis of religions and theism.
The Necessity of Atheism Thus, religions are being followed through ignorance of the teachings and their overall impacts on humanity while the atheism is being followed through application of scientific logic to lifestyles.
Such an instance is confirmed by a recent survey wherein atheists and agnostics are found to surpass all other groups in their knowledge of religions. Now, we are here to survey what and why we must know about religions.
Whether one believes in some concept or refuses to believe, he/she is supposed to know it. Since, present human society has a majority of believers in religions and God, it s all the more important for the non-believers to know religions and God to counter the false beliefs of the majority. The survey also proves that mostly the ignorant people are believers in religions and God.
Knowledge is power of humanity over all other species of life, and through it only we come to differentiate between the right and the wrong. And surely, knowledge does not mean believing. It is all the more needed for not believing.
Believing in something distracts the person from knowing about the alternatives, and deeper the faith more is the distraction. Multiplicity of religions proves fallacy of universality of religions and God which every religion claims. I mean to say if religions are there to preach the universal facts of life, as they claim, why there should be so many versions. This proves that some religions are misleading the people and so the believers must try to know more of other religions.
Most of the religious persons know more of the history rather than the preachings and their basis of their own religions, while the latter must play more important role in developing faith in the religion. Through history, these religions create an alliance of followers with the pioneer of the religion and then prove the pioneer to be a great soul and make him their deity. While an atheist probes the teachings and judges the religion on their basis. For the religious persons, they develop a faith in the person rather than his teachings while their followers are supposed to follow the teachings. As a result, religious followers worship the pioneering persons ignoring their teachings in their lifestyles.
Converse to the above point, science is being adopted in everyday life of all of the humanity without knowledge of its fundamental principles and theories. This proves that science has more followers than the religions. And the atheism evolves from scientific analysis of religions and theism.
The Necessity of Atheism Thus, religions are being followed through ignorance of the teachings and their overall impacts on humanity while the atheism is being followed through application of scientific logic to lifestyles.
Positive side of Atheism - Humanism
When atheists say that God does not exist, religions are unwanted, spirituality is a fraud, etc. they are marked as reactionaries have nothing original to say without referring to the trendy religions and theism. This is right, up to some extent but not in its wholeness. In fact, they negate theism only because these are keeping a strong hold on the humanity and the humanity need be pulled out of this grip to have subscribers from the humanity. After all, they will not create anybody outside of humanity to be their supporter. So, the 'reactionary' label on the atheists is correct but there is nothing wrong in being a reactionary.
I have always been insisting that atheism is humanism while all religions divide the human society into fragments which go against the spirit of humanism. Theism has introduced competitiveness to human society while the humanism brought social order to itself through rejuvenating cooperation which was in peril in the days of wandering humanity.
The cooperation evolved by humanism is being thwarted by theism through religions for serving vested interests. Thus, even theism is also a reactionary development against humanism. Indeed, there was no need for coining the word 'atheism' to counter theism. What people against theism were needed to do was and still is to insist on humanism to suppress theism.
Humanism is basic and original to humanity and theism was created to oppose its spirit of cooperation in the humanity. It is same as science being original for humanity and faith created to oppose the spirit of science. Science is basically the process of knowing through senses, while faith is not knowing but believing what others say. Thus, tussle between humanism and theism is same as tussle of science versus faith, and now the tussle between atheism and theism.
Another difference between science and faith is that the science evolves out of curiosity of humanity and so is dynamic while the faith is constructed and the construction remains static. For this reason, all faiths have remained the same after their origins while the science has been continuously evolving adding more and more to knowledge base of humanity. This however gives advantage to faiths for the human inertia to adapt to changes. For this reason, today the faiths have more subscriber while the sciences have a few. In the democratic world where numbers matter rather than quality, faiths have gained supremacy over sciences.
Science & Faith
In-spite of the apparent supremacy of faiths over sciences, no human-being is living without getting advantage of the scientific developments while the faiths are ditching the humanity by raising partitions within each society and group of people.
I have always been insisting that atheism is humanism while all religions divide the human society into fragments which go against the spirit of humanism. Theism has introduced competitiveness to human society while the humanism brought social order to itself through rejuvenating cooperation which was in peril in the days of wandering humanity.
The cooperation evolved by humanism is being thwarted by theism through religions for serving vested interests. Thus, even theism is also a reactionary development against humanism. Indeed, there was no need for coining the word 'atheism' to counter theism. What people against theism were needed to do was and still is to insist on humanism to suppress theism.
Humanism is basic and original to humanity and theism was created to oppose its spirit of cooperation in the humanity. It is same as science being original for humanity and faith created to oppose the spirit of science. Science is basically the process of knowing through senses, while faith is not knowing but believing what others say. Thus, tussle between humanism and theism is same as tussle of science versus faith, and now the tussle between atheism and theism.
Another difference between science and faith is that the science evolves out of curiosity of humanity and so is dynamic while the faith is constructed and the construction remains static. For this reason, all faiths have remained the same after their origins while the science has been continuously evolving adding more and more to knowledge base of humanity. This however gives advantage to faiths for the human inertia to adapt to changes. For this reason, today the faiths have more subscriber while the sciences have a few. In the democratic world where numbers matter rather than quality, faiths have gained supremacy over sciences.
Science & Faith
In-spite of the apparent supremacy of faiths over sciences, no human-being is living without getting advantage of the scientific developments while the faiths are ditching the humanity by raising partitions within each society and group of people.
Psychology of Atheism
Human psyche is convenience-oriented without bothering for logical rightness. This has been exploited by each propounder of religions and theism. This evolved many faiths in human society which are, undoubtedly, very popular among common people all over the globe. This was an initial development in social sciences which more or less supported theism as a consequence natural human psyche.
Exploitations of weak by the strong was also considered beastly attribute. Since humans too originated from their beastly past through civilized overtures over the time, beastliness is considered as a natural attribute ignoring claim of civilization to be a more human behavior. Indeed, human civilization and nature stand face to face against each other in this respect. Modern humans can not afford to be natural in any way, in-stead they have to be civilized.
Evolution of civilizations also included prevention of exploitations of the weak by the strong to gradually tame the beastliness of early humans. Civilization is not convenience-oriented but prefers to be discipline-oriented, whether convenient or not. Thus civilization works against convenience-oriented human psyche also. In such a confrontation of convenience and discipline, humans tend to slide towards conveniences ignoring their civilized developments. This tendency is also being exploited by theists for popularizing their viewpoints.
Although, theism is based on psychological exploitation, no theist is willing to accept this fact in public, even though most of them accept it in private. In public, they also preach prevention of exploitations of the weak by the strong, but still keep on working to exploit the psychological weakness of human mind due to its genetic beastliness wherein exploitation was rampant in its historical past.
Atheism is also natural as no infant takes birth with a religious leaning or as a subscriber to theism. It is the society which colors his/her conscience with religious fervor and inscribes in his/her brain seeds of theism. This is also a sort of exploitation of an innocent mind.
Exploitation is a beastly culture rampant in the natural world, while humans through civilized developments of their minds and cultures have been opposing exploitation of all sorts. Free developments of minds have always been targeted by right thinking people all over the globe since times immemorial. Such a free thinking frees individuals and societies from bondages of God and religions and make them atheists, the true human-beings.
Developments of physical sciences also impresses on human minds to think, get convinced through logic, and then follow their consciences. These sciences also disapprove existence of any God or other deities and need of having any faith in these misconceptions gripping the non-thinking irrational humanity.
Philosophically also, all those who thought deeply on the issue reached the conclusion that there is no need of any imagination or concept of god for humanity to move on its path of higher and higher civilization. Examples of such thinkers and their philosophies are numerous - secular humanists, Humeans, Nietzschean nihilists, Marxists, Madalyn Murray O'Hairists, Russellites, Chomskyites, French existentialists like Camus or Sartre, logical positivists, utilitarians like Mill or Singer, New Atheists, etc.Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
To say that atheism has evolved through constructions of few individuals in the world is false. On the contrary, theism is a construction of nasty human minds to exploit the innocent minds of future generations in their infancies. Atheism is pure and natural.
Exploitations of weak by the strong was also considered beastly attribute. Since humans too originated from their beastly past through civilized overtures over the time, beastliness is considered as a natural attribute ignoring claim of civilization to be a more human behavior. Indeed, human civilization and nature stand face to face against each other in this respect. Modern humans can not afford to be natural in any way, in-stead they have to be civilized.
Evolution of civilizations also included prevention of exploitations of the weak by the strong to gradually tame the beastliness of early humans. Civilization is not convenience-oriented but prefers to be discipline-oriented, whether convenient or not. Thus civilization works against convenience-oriented human psyche also. In such a confrontation of convenience and discipline, humans tend to slide towards conveniences ignoring their civilized developments. This tendency is also being exploited by theists for popularizing their viewpoints.
Although, theism is based on psychological exploitation, no theist is willing to accept this fact in public, even though most of them accept it in private. In public, they also preach prevention of exploitations of the weak by the strong, but still keep on working to exploit the psychological weakness of human mind due to its genetic beastliness wherein exploitation was rampant in its historical past.
Atheism is also natural as no infant takes birth with a religious leaning or as a subscriber to theism. It is the society which colors his/her conscience with religious fervor and inscribes in his/her brain seeds of theism. This is also a sort of exploitation of an innocent mind.
Exploitation is a beastly culture rampant in the natural world, while humans through civilized developments of their minds and cultures have been opposing exploitation of all sorts. Free developments of minds have always been targeted by right thinking people all over the globe since times immemorial. Such a free thinking frees individuals and societies from bondages of God and religions and make them atheists, the true human-beings.
Developments of physical sciences also impresses on human minds to think, get convinced through logic, and then follow their consciences. These sciences also disapprove existence of any God or other deities and need of having any faith in these misconceptions gripping the non-thinking irrational humanity.
Philosophically also, all those who thought deeply on the issue reached the conclusion that there is no need of any imagination or concept of god for humanity to move on its path of higher and higher civilization. Examples of such thinkers and their philosophies are numerous - secular humanists, Humeans, Nietzschean nihilists, Marxists, Madalyn Murray O'Hairists, Russellites, Chomskyites, French existentialists like Camus or Sartre, logical positivists, utilitarians like Mill or Singer, New Atheists, etc.Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
To say that atheism has evolved through constructions of few individuals in the world is false. On the contrary, theism is a construction of nasty human minds to exploit the innocent minds of future generations in their infancies. Atheism is pure and natural.
Atheists in a Conformist Society
With rise in population, particularly in the third world, people have more problems and have to be more busy than they used to be earlier some 30 years back. Now they have no time to think on new ideas or in non-conventional ways. This has resulted in their becoming conformists. In-spite of more of educated persons in the society and their better lifestyles, they no more question views and opinions poured on them and accept whatever is told to them. It does not mean that they follow whatever is told to them, they simply say 'yes' to all to get rid of the non-conventional thoughts and ideas.
In all conformist societies, theism is found to be omnipresent in the life and blood of people, not because they pondered over this issue and accepted it as their choice, but because it was forced on them by some cunning persons to serve their own vested interests. Theism was preached for the first time about 2400 years ago in a well organized way and since then the preachings have been very regular and organized by the vested interests. During this period, theists of the world have remained thinly scattered and passive. This makes human societies composed of mostly theists. Many such societies have never heard of atheism even as a possibility. Atheism has been an extra-human word to them.
Who are atheists now? Recent researches in psychology have proved that atheists are more intelligent tan the theists in general. This is naturally proved by the fact that only a thinking person can be an atheist in the theist societies, and thinking is an exercise of intellect.
Theism is a business spread all over the world while atheism is no body's business. Therefore, theism is preached and propagated by those in business of God, religions and spirituality etc.Its wings have multiple dimensions like astrology, religious festivities and many such rituals spanning from birth to death of persons.
Atheism need no preachings because it is a concept of non-existence which neither can be proved nor need support. It is an escape from theism through logical thinking and so is naturally available to all species of life at the time of birth. Only human minds get corrupted by theism in the childhood itself. So only atheism is pure humanism.
In all conformist societies, theism is found to be omnipresent in the life and blood of people, not because they pondered over this issue and accepted it as their choice, but because it was forced on them by some cunning persons to serve their own vested interests. Theism was preached for the first time about 2400 years ago in a well organized way and since then the preachings have been very regular and organized by the vested interests. During this period, theists of the world have remained thinly scattered and passive. This makes human societies composed of mostly theists. Many such societies have never heard of atheism even as a possibility. Atheism has been an extra-human word to them.
Who are atheists now? Recent researches in psychology have proved that atheists are more intelligent tan the theists in general. This is naturally proved by the fact that only a thinking person can be an atheist in the theist societies, and thinking is an exercise of intellect.
Theism is a business spread all over the world while atheism is no body's business. Therefore, theism is preached and propagated by those in business of God, religions and spirituality etc.Its wings have multiple dimensions like astrology, religious festivities and many such rituals spanning from birth to death of persons.
Atheism need no preachings because it is a concept of non-existence which neither can be proved nor need support. It is an escape from theism through logical thinking and so is naturally available to all species of life at the time of birth. Only human minds get corrupted by theism in the childhood itself. So only atheism is pure humanism.
God, Evolution and Reproduction
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is the final word on evolution process of nature, it may only be added something but nothing can be subtracted from it. This theory is in clear contrast with the concept of God of theists and therefore supports atheism. here is a new light on evolution which again contradicts the human made concept of God.
On a deep pondering of the whole evolution process, I notice that working of nature is extremely inefficient from human angle of efficiency. Just see some examples. In a drop of semen of a human male, there are millions of sperms floating in a pool of sugar and during copulation process, they are provided a chance to be productive but only a single sperm is allowed to meet its counterpart - the female ovum. All the rest are destined to die after the ejaculation.
Even in women, the ovum is available for fertilization by the male sperm for about a week's duration after the mensuration. At all other times, all the male sperms reaching the ovary through male-female intercourses, are of no value and go waste.
In most of animal species, the females are made to produce off-springs after every heat cycle but only a few of the produced off-springs are able to survive the tough conditions of nature, provided no human-made medical aid is provided for the survivals. This is done by nature for keeping populations under manageable limits. Same was the case for humans in ancient times when medical science was not as developed as it is today.Developments in medical science to fight diseases have resulted into human population explosions in many parts of the globe making these unmanageable.
Humans have developed their own definition of production efficiency wherein rejections are reduced to bare minimum level. Management tools such as 'total quality management' (TQM) are even designed for zero rejections. Humans have created God as a perfect creator from their own point of view. Therefore, this human-made God must be following TQM. But all the natural creations, some described above, are extremely inefficient as far as human concepts are concerned. This proves the either the God is not a perfect creator or He is not the creator of lives on the earth. Or, thirdly, the human concept of God is highly misconceived. All these options prove the point of atheism.
On a deep pondering of the whole evolution process, I notice that working of nature is extremely inefficient from human angle of efficiency. Just see some examples. In a drop of semen of a human male, there are millions of sperms floating in a pool of sugar and during copulation process, they are provided a chance to be productive but only a single sperm is allowed to meet its counterpart - the female ovum. All the rest are destined to die after the ejaculation.
Even in women, the ovum is available for fertilization by the male sperm for about a week's duration after the mensuration. At all other times, all the male sperms reaching the ovary through male-female intercourses, are of no value and go waste.
In most of animal species, the females are made to produce off-springs after every heat cycle but only a few of the produced off-springs are able to survive the tough conditions of nature, provided no human-made medical aid is provided for the survivals. This is done by nature for keeping populations under manageable limits. Same was the case for humans in ancient times when medical science was not as developed as it is today.Developments in medical science to fight diseases have resulted into human population explosions in many parts of the globe making these unmanageable.
Humans have developed their own definition of production efficiency wherein rejections are reduced to bare minimum level. Management tools such as 'total quality management' (TQM) are even designed for zero rejections. Humans have created God as a perfect creator from their own point of view. Therefore, this human-made God must be following TQM. But all the natural creations, some described above, are extremely inefficient as far as human concepts are concerned. This proves the either the God is not a perfect creator or He is not the creator of lives on the earth. Or, thirdly, the human concept of God is highly misconceived. All these options prove the point of atheism.
Evolutionary Biology of Charles Darwin and its support to Atheism
On the ocassion of 150th anniversary of a great genius Charles Darwin, I think is good tribute shall be to study his influence on human thoughts up to this time and later periods. He proved to be the pioneer of a new branch of science called evolutionary biology. His contributions in the field may be summarized as -
1. Continuance of Evolution of Species
This has two repercussions - non-constancy of species and evolution being a gradual process without any break and suddenness. The first point states that no species on earth remains in the same state for ever but, according to the second point, keep on evolving gradually towards perfection without any discontinuity. Thus, evolution is an ever-going process working on each species on the earth and no change in a species takes place suddenly.
2. Branching during Evolution
This implies that all life forms descended from a single source and as the evolution of that source took place under different circumstances, new species came into being. This branching is the cause of present large number of species on earth and this number shall go on increasing continuously. However, some species for being misfit in their environment become extinct over a period of time. Thus, birth of new and extinction of existing species is a continuous process.
Before this theory was propounded by Darwin in 1859, Aristotle's notion of linear evolution was endorsed by many later naturalists, which assumed that all species took birth and went on improving themselves to become more and more suitable to their respective environments.
3. Natural Selection at the Core of Evolution
Since a species may evolve into different forms of life due to different environments, the nature selected only fit for survival and dismissing the misfits. This also implies that there exist no super-natural cause behind new species coming into being - in direct contrast to theist assumptions of a creator's existence and all forms of life being His creations. Thus, Darwin provided a foundation stone for atheism, which explains all natural phenomena scientifically and strikes theology at its root.
Natural derivations of these concepts of theory of evolution strike at the very root of general thinking of humanity to alter it to be more scientific rather than being faith-based. Some such points are worth mentioning here.
a. There is No Super-natural Power
Darwin's evolution theory explains every development of life materialistically and stresses that no super-natural power is involved in the process. This enabled humanity in explaining every natural phenomenon scientifically and thus provide strength to scientific culture of the world. This also discards theological descriptions of creation and life.
b. Refutation of Typology
Species on earth may be classified in to different types, but every individual in a type is unique and different from all others in the type. Thus, there are dissimilarities in similarities of life forms. The individual's uniqueness is due his/her level of evolution which is different for each individual. Due to this, every population keep on changing naturally to being better adapted to natural environment. This notion helps in linking history to society to scientific thinking.
c. Teleology is Invalid
According to Darwin's evolution theory, changes in nature are not directed towards any targeted results but are due to ever-ongoing evolutionary process of natural selection. This strikes at concept of fate of humanity which states that everything has a pre-determined future state and changes take place towards achieve that state.
d. Randomness is Universal
Darwin's theory states that things undergo production variations randomly and then out of these better-adapted things are selected for survival as a process of natural selection. This notion has been vigorously opposed by many scientists viz. John Herschel, Albert Einstein, etc. but still survives due to its unique explanation of individual's distinctiveness in populations of a species.
Thus, Atheism finds the most scientific support from Charles Darwin through his theory of evolution which is the only surviving valid theory of explaining natural changes taking place all around.
1. Continuance of Evolution of Species
This has two repercussions - non-constancy of species and evolution being a gradual process without any break and suddenness. The first point states that no species on earth remains in the same state for ever but, according to the second point, keep on evolving gradually towards perfection without any discontinuity. Thus, evolution is an ever-going process working on each species on the earth and no change in a species takes place suddenly.
2. Branching during Evolution
This implies that all life forms descended from a single source and as the evolution of that source took place under different circumstances, new species came into being. This branching is the cause of present large number of species on earth and this number shall go on increasing continuously. However, some species for being misfit in their environment become extinct over a period of time. Thus, birth of new and extinction of existing species is a continuous process.
Before this theory was propounded by Darwin in 1859, Aristotle's notion of linear evolution was endorsed by many later naturalists, which assumed that all species took birth and went on improving themselves to become more and more suitable to their respective environments.
3. Natural Selection at the Core of Evolution
Since a species may evolve into different forms of life due to different environments, the nature selected only fit for survival and dismissing the misfits. This also implies that there exist no super-natural cause behind new species coming into being - in direct contrast to theist assumptions of a creator's existence and all forms of life being His creations. Thus, Darwin provided a foundation stone for atheism, which explains all natural phenomena scientifically and strikes theology at its root.
Natural derivations of these concepts of theory of evolution strike at the very root of general thinking of humanity to alter it to be more scientific rather than being faith-based. Some such points are worth mentioning here.
a. There is No Super-natural Power
Darwin's evolution theory explains every development of life materialistically and stresses that no super-natural power is involved in the process. This enabled humanity in explaining every natural phenomenon scientifically and thus provide strength to scientific culture of the world. This also discards theological descriptions of creation and life.
b. Refutation of Typology
Species on earth may be classified in to different types, but every individual in a type is unique and different from all others in the type. Thus, there are dissimilarities in similarities of life forms. The individual's uniqueness is due his/her level of evolution which is different for each individual. Due to this, every population keep on changing naturally to being better adapted to natural environment. This notion helps in linking history to society to scientific thinking.
c. Teleology is Invalid
According to Darwin's evolution theory, changes in nature are not directed towards any targeted results but are due to ever-ongoing evolutionary process of natural selection. This strikes at concept of fate of humanity which states that everything has a pre-determined future state and changes take place towards achieve that state.
d. Randomness is Universal
Darwin's theory states that things undergo production variations randomly and then out of these better-adapted things are selected for survival as a process of natural selection. This notion has been vigorously opposed by many scientists viz. John Herschel, Albert Einstein, etc. but still survives due to its unique explanation of individual's distinctiveness in populations of a species.
Thus, Atheism finds the most scientific support from Charles Darwin through his theory of evolution which is the only surviving valid theory of explaining natural changes taking place all around.
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