Arrogant, boring balderdash.

Interesting article but he might be over-egging the pudding, like, everyone knows that the rationalist, scientific experiments in gaul, the ussr, china and nazi germany didn't go so well, and put humanity back hundreds of years. I mean, by now we should really have people on Mars but scientists are still trying to figure out men from women or something...it gets really confusing.

"Science denial by climate sceptics"? No need to go further. You don't get science or religion (such as AGW).

Good’ol Brian.

In his unoriginal view of life, Brian beams with success stories. From this very privileged lofty tower, Brian has made his life mission, one of tipping buckets of S* from the great height, on silly little religious people far below.

Brian, from the club of hollow men, which includes in its ranks, Malcolm Turnbull, is, like Malcom, a very needed man in our society.

But how buoying to the limbic senses to know, thanks to Brian, that all this human limbic bad brain thinking started, wait for it…..da, da da, in South Africa!
Well, one redeeming feature of South Africa though, is its awareness of corruption, and its amusement that the bad business practices rejected by them, are flying out to the great farmland of corruption, Auzkong.

Maybe Brian should drink a little less alcohol and a lot more water. And before writing another like this, as he sits contemplating the meaning of life, (which all underlings early realise, has no meaning); from his office in the first cave on the left, down shrunken brain street, consider he may be wrong!

Like the other posters I got as far as the part comparing the anti-vaxers with climate sceptics, which I found insulting, and skimmed the rest. The anti-vaxers are, in fact, akin to those who believe in global warming/climate change, as its about doom and gloom and conspiracies. As for the marriage equality stuff, there are genuine religious objections to the change. You may not agree with them, but those objections are genuine, and those who hold them have every right to make their objections known. The article is of little value and should be ignored.

>>The inconvenient truth is that all humans are prone to self-deception. But some more than others! <<

How true! This very article, and what it is trying to say in simplified terms about reason and the complex concept of religion, is a best example of that.

>> Religion is a by-product of our survival mechanisms <<

So is e.g. mathematics and science.

If religion can masquarade as pseudoscince (as it certainly can) so can science masquarade for some as a kind of psudo-religion. Again, this article is a good illustration of that.