On Human Frailty

     The early people -- the poeple where religion originated -- lacked the evidences needed to answer the primitive questions; they lacked not just in technological advancement, but also in the scientific advancement, this in turn led them to the belief that a magic is governing the world, it is their only hope in answering the questions that haunt them. This I can tolerate, as frail humans as we are, we fear something that we don't know of.

      After years of scientific and technological advancements, we have learned about the big-bang, about our very old ancestral prokaryotes and how they came to be, about bacteria that causes illness, about the solar system and the stars, and about the evolution of species including us humans, we are at the pinnacle of evolution and the evidences and ideas that we have gathered are adequate enough for us to answer these primitive questions that seemed astronomical before. Why, still, do we have to hold on the a fatherly figure? Why must we not try to move on and, just like what evolution does and told us, remove the useless stuff that'll slow us down? Why must man not try to rely on himself and his logic or reason, given that we have advanced brain capable of reasoning.

     I have met many a friend that I've helped open his mind to the world of freethinking -- and it had wondrous effects, but I noticed, after a terrible experience or two, they suddenly morph back to their old religious status, and worship god again, seeking for his divine intervention -- which never comes. I pity those who can't stand for their own, those who still hold on to a heavenly figure, and to worsen that, they dare not question that belief for the fear of eternal punishment.

"Why must learned man believe the uneducated?"

     We need to let go of the supernatural explanation on how we humans came to be, the evolution of man is there to explain this; and where humans came from? The early prokaryotes - who, mind you, can come out from inorganic materials that existed in the early earth, even until now. Why still trust the bible, who's written by illogical men who don't even understand what evolution is? Why say that god created the universe? Are you afraid to say that "science hasn't fully answered that yet? (but honestly, Lawrence Krauss pawned this topic, search for it in google- youtube, "a universe from nothing".)" Must there be an answer to everything? Can't we not wait for hard evidences before concluding something superficial as god? Must men resort to illogical arguments, just to assure him that something, someone out there has some sort of plan for us?

I ask you, then, what if one day, god disappears? Will you lose your sanity?