As the years roll by, as a collective community, we are continually
communicating with each other in order to improve the human condition.
First word of mouth, wall paintings and smoke signals. Then the invention of writing on stone and paper, the invention of printing, the book,film and the newspaper. Morse code then radio, talk-back on radio. Television and the computer.
Our brain is continually sifting information. we are now more aware than ever before about where we come from and where we are heading.
Through all of these mediums individuals have set themselves up to try and manipulate the majority for their own ends.
If we can work out a system whereby the common good is always paramount we will be on our way to Utopia.

Raise the Dust I couldn't agree with you more but from my view point I see the human race losing their compassion and accepting that 1% of the world population control the other 99% and unfortunately they are amoral, unethical, greedy and manipulative.

As for the existence of God the writers argument holds no original ideas they are the same as many that preceded it. My question to the writer is who created the gasses, molecules etc that over a period of billions of years evolved into Homo Sapiens? It is as illogical to believe that something simply existed without stimulus as it is to believe in God. in fact you believe in God to you it is evolution

My question to Ulis is: "who created the God whom you believe created the gasses, molecules etc that over a period of billions of years evolved into Homo Sapiens?" If one needs 'creating' then why not the other?

"It is as illogical to believe that something simply existed without stimulus as it is to believe in God."

The difference is that we have evidence for the existence of one and not the other. It's not illogical to believe in the existence of something in the past when you can see it exists now. God, on the other hand...

But the paucity of responses to this article suggests that Jake is preaching to the converted anyway.

Ulis,

Is it equally illogical to think that God came into existence without stimulus?

What is God?

Speaking as a Christian, I can only agree with the author that there is no “benevolent, interventional/interactive creator whom you appease during your life in hopes of a blissful immortality in the form of an afterlife”. I also agree with him that this view is not “akin to claiming that the universe is dull and monotonous and ultimately pointless.”

Investigating the universe is a never-ending and exciting adventure, each new scientific discovery giving rise to new awe and new questions to ponder. And that is in addition to the utilitarian justifications for the quest.

None of these things, however, dissuades me from trying to come closer to God.

A Google chart plots the population of the world from year 1800 when it was at one billion humans to this year, 2011, in which it has reached seven billions.

The extrapolation of this graph to the end of this century points to a figure of 14 billions.

Will people stop breeding from the year 2100 on?

Yes. God will see to it.

He has the powers to provide some more space for us, either by increasing the surface of this planet or creating a twin planet next to it.

Besides,God has a stake in man’s life as, if all humans die, there will be no need for Gods.