Re: Is evolutionary chance impossible?
By the extreme, I'm thinking of what we call fundamentalism. Even if that might represent a fairly big chunk of the U.S. population, it's still the extreme in my view. While I agree with what you said, I think it's impossible to say yes or no to a question like, "Is religion a bad thing?"--that is, in a fully reasoned way. It's complicated, is all I'm saying. Even this matter of believing in something, and what that belief concerns, is complicated. If you say you believe in a god that works in our world and that this god has performed and could perform miracles, you are making a statement for which there is no scientific evidence--but will there necessarily be a lot of material difference in how you act as a member of a society? On the other hand, if you believe that blind people are afflicted because of their sins in a past life, as some Buddhists think, your religion has determined your behavior, in this case in a very bad way.
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