Well what should I say here? I don’t really know to be honest so I will more or less just talk about a few of the things that I had written down a couple of weeks ago. First of all this is my first blog ever, although I have had websites before I never really had anything much to talk about before, all of this is mostly new to me. This brings me to the reason to why I write what I write! The word misunderstanding is overused especially when it comes to the whole area of atheism and with more consideration misunderstanding is completely the wrong word to use. Elimination of trying to think like someone else is perhaps the best way of putting what I keep coming across. The most powerful and the most useful thing in the world is trying to understand what is going on in other people’s minds and I say this not in terms of we must all live in peace & get along with each other, it’s more like once you can understand how someone thinks you can pretty much make them believe what you want. You can change their perception for better or worse and for those that are smart enough you then have the ability to question what is being said in every context.
Ultimately the reason behind my words is fear, if I am honest it scares the hell out of me that Christians in America are slowly chipping away at science, it scares me that people can blow themselves up in the name of God and it terrifies me religious people across the world are given so much power over the rest of us. Like all fear it becomes anger and that is why I write stuff, because I am angry that so many people are eliminating trying to understand what is going on in others minds! And I say this because the attempts of creationists to introduce intelligent design as a scientific theory, the Muslims & Christians attempts to convince us their religions are right and a whole list of other things is completely insulting to intelligent people and a clear demonstration of removing the idea of trying to understand what others are thinking. You might here start to think that I am a little confused because I am scared of religious movements (is that the right expression?) while blaming them for not being able to understand others thinking even though that can give people a lot of power.
So here is me trying to explain it a little more: I read once a Christian based article that talked about how Darwin got the idea of genes & genetic material changing to cause species thus he was completely wrong in the theory of evolution. The argument seemed so real and true. Sadly I have tried to find it again but it seems I have lost the article, anyway, I would still have believed this article if I did not a few weeks later work out that Darwin died many years before the discovery of genes or DNA! Here is where it comes together, thank you for reading this far! What the creationists do is with the force of objections and crap ‘science’ is to remove massive groups of people away from trying to understand what others are thinking, in this example stopping people from picking up a book or researching on the internet about what the theory of evolution actually is talking about. If everyone had to come to understand evolution before they were able to reject it, then evolution would benefit and religion would lose out. Pastor Ted Haggard said to Dawkins once “Get out; you called my Children monkeys!” – No theory of evolution has ever said that humans came from monkeys! Monkeys are a different species to humans, monkeys were never humans and humans were never monkeys. To say that is wrong! They challenge common sense and reason; we all must challenge them back. They encourage unreason and that one day will threaten me!
That was a little rant sorry! There are a couple of other things that I was going to say, the first is that I am from a science background in fact I spent the last 7 or so years coming to understand it. I have currently the following: Dip SWH BSc PGDip after my name and hopefully after my year out I will go back to University to complete my doctorate. Oh fancy pants you might be thinking, well not really! I just never gave up and I got there in the end. This brings me to something my English teacher said to me when I was 15, he basically said that I would not pass my English exams and would not be able to go on with my education. I proved him wrong and after doing so I went onto university and then diagnosed myself as Dyslexic later on I asked to be tested by an educational psychologist. It was confirmed and after 17 years of teachers failing me by not spotting the fact I was dyslexic, I was 21 at the time, I started to make things better for myself. If you ever notice mistakes in my posts please accept them as the dyslexia playing its part although hopefully there will only be a few. Other than that I always try to write the Dan Dennet way, clear is clear, I want you to understand clearly what is going on in my head.
Other than that I am just a normal guy really – I like pie! I like the TV show Lost and I like to read.
So there is little more for me to say but I hope that you at least enjoy one of my posts! Let’s see where this goes…
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