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