| Where did fire come from? If you ask a Hindu, | | | | once understand, science has destroyed the |
| they will say that the god Agni produces fire. If | | | | superstition and provided a real answer that was |
| you ask an Roman religionist, they will say that | | | | backed up with evidence, logic, and reason. The |
| the god Prometheus brought fire down to earth. | | | | sun does not cross the sky because the god |
| If you ask a physicist, they will give you the | | | | Apollo pulls it across in his chariot, nor is the sun a |
| truthful answer: fire is produced by atoms | | | | god - the sun is a mass of hydrogen atoms that |
| vibrating at high velocities. | | | | the earth revolves around. So, surely, if we are |
| Where do metals come from? If you ask a | | | | to discover the truths of the Universe, if we are |
| Roman religionist, they will say that the god Pluto | | | | to understand the world and its workings - the |
| placed them in the earth. If you ask a chemist, | | | | physics, the mathematics, the chemistry - we |
| they will give you the truthful answer: metals are | | | | best not dabble in the dogmatic scripture of past |
| caused by the fusion of atoms in suns. Where do | | | | religions (the Bible, the Qur'an, the Vedas, the |
| women come from? If you ask a Christian, they | | | | Talmud), yet we must examine the world. |
| will say that god created woman from the rib | | | | Surely, then, if a man is wrong in saying that fire |
| bone of man. If you ask a biologist, they will give | | | | came from Prometheous, how right can another |
| you the truthful answer: men and women evolved | | | | man be when he claims that an ill individual's health |
| from asexual species as a means of diversifying | | | | improving can be a miracle of the gods? Primitive |
| the gene pool. What of the winds, lightning, | | | | man thought that the rainbow was a miracle from |
| animals, medicine, warriors, the flute, and - in | | | | god, a sign from the divine. Today, however, the |
| general - the world and its workings? Where did | | | | rainbow is recognized as a chemical reaction that |
| they come from? Religion has already given its | | | | can be reproduced with the right circumstances. |
| answers. The answers that satisfied primitive man | | | | As man enters the realm of science - a world of |
| who believed the world to be flat and diseases | | | | understanding, order, and general knowledge, - he |
| caused by demons are not answers that science | | | | inevitably leaves the realm of religion - a world of |
| has verified. In fact, the very opposite has | | | | shortcut explanations, feasible attempts at ethics, |
| happened: where religion made a shortcut | | | | and superstition. |
| explanation of something that individuals could not | | | | |