Adventure Ausrama Blog

Since 1986 the proportion of biology students who believe that God had no hand in evolution has risen from 25 percent to over 60 percent. The study was set up 32 years ago at the University of New South Wales by Mike Archer. In the first year 10 percent were creationists. They were adamant that their figure would rise over the years. Unfortunately, their confidence was not well founded: now it has fallen to 4 percent. Time changes everything. To get another perspective, the number who felt that God guided the evolution of humankind fell from half to a quarter of respondents. All this is bad for those of a religious persuasion. Despite the push by religionists, non-believers are winning out. Anyone with a rational mind can see there is no one God and there certainly are no multiple Gods. The gods of ancient Egyptians disappeared when Rome decreed that Christianity was the state religion throughout the Roman empire. There is a tendency for new religions to adopt many of t...

It is not necessarily my view but when I was growing up I was told that all Catholics are bigots. It is due to the way they are brought up, being taught to hold strongly to dogma from the Vatican. This may not be true because the majority of adult Catholics do practice birth control even though this is banned by the Church. However, their upbringing is narrowed somewhat by the curriculum of Catholic schools which drives teachings of the Holy Scriptures into a child's mind. The church of business was Protestant, at least initially. Now, it seems that the Catholic Church provides adults with a far right leaning. For example, a Catholic like Tony Abbott couldn't be further to the right. If he could move further he would fall off the edge. He loves business and hates everything else. His attack on the tertiary sector is public knowledge. He thinks that money can be taken from scientific endeavour and business will somehow continue to make a profit. This view, o...