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What is Intelligence? 125
There are crazy people with serious mental problems who attack people
at random for no good reason.
There are animal rights and other extremists who may harass, attack or
even murder you if you are doing some scientific research they
disapprove of.
And of course, there are the political terrorists who blow people and
office buildings up at random for some cause or another that you can never
quite fathom.
Then, there are all these awful natural catastrophes and scary diseases
which seem to come from nowhere in an ever increasing pace and are like
those Hollywood disaster movies come true.
And finally, there are the weapons of mass destruction lying around
somewhere, that we don’t want, but somehow can’t seem to get rid of,
that are waiting to be used someday.
What is one to do?
The scientist by destroying the religions faith of the common man over
the last one-hundred something years we would suggest has led us to this
pass.
We would suggest, that the atheist scientist confesses this error he or she
had made in denying the spiritual without any proof to say so.
We would suggest that scientists be humble, confess their ignorance, do
not lie to the public about the extent of their knowledge and achievement,
do not say there has been conclusive scientific proof of the non-existence
of God, as for example Richard Dawkins does, when such a position is
obviously not rational, lacking conclusive evidence one way or the other.
For let us look - as a final piece of evidence, at a September 2004
article in the esteemed British science journal New Scientist.