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Ferrik encouraged secular and atheist students to express their beliefs with passion, stating that with courage and boldness, great things can be accomplished for secularism on campus and beyond...
...Washington Is God in Our Genes? Your story [Nov. 29] asks, "did humans create religion from cues sent from above, or did evolution instill in us a sense of the divine so that we would gather into the communities essential to keeping the species going?" As an atheist turned agnostic turned theist turned Christian, I find myself embracing a theory that both sides find controversial: intelligent design. We are created with the need for God by God. Amy E. Mitchell Eaton, Ohio, U.S. Poor Intelligence "In Your Face At The CIA" [Nov. 29] reported on the resignation of some...
...Such talk dismays Lee Rhiannon, a New South Wales Greens M.P. who describes herself as an atheist. "To allow your personal faith to dictate what you do in the political world is very undemocratic," she says. "The religious right are trying to remake parliament and society in their own image." Counters Wallace: "People bring up the line, Don't legislate your morality on me. But every law has a moral component. If it isn't Judeo-Christian morality that is being legislated, it's somebody's morality. There's no vacuum." Says Muehlenberg: "Secular humanism is a faith...
Your story asks, "Did humans create religion from cues sent from above, or did evolution instill in us a sense of the divine so that we would gather into the communities essential to keeping the species going?" As an atheist turned agnostic turned theist turned Christian, I find myself embracing a theory that both sides find controversial: intelligent design. We are created with the need for God by God. AMY E. MITCHELL Eaton, Ohio
...translate into religious beliefs. I tend to get caught up in an experience, have fleeting revelations and insights and feel connected to the world outside me, all of which, according to your article, are indications of spirituality. Having those traits should make me a nun. But I am an atheist. A spiritual gene alone does not cause people to spread their arms, look up at the sky and declare, "Hallelujah! There...