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...

Is everyone fed up with churches interfering in free speech and actions? We all have the right to say what we feel as long as it not directed at specific people with different heritage or beliefs. However, churches want those who are not religious to shut up. They are virtually saying shut up or we will shut you up. Ironically, the state itself is responsible for much of this. It is absurd in this day and age for a parliament to be opened with prayers to a God who does not exist. It is all superstitious nonsense! Obviously, Australian Muslims are upset by prayers to a Christian God when some elected representatives are Muslims. At the moment the Catholic Church is targetting gay people to stop the majority pushing for gay marriage.  The Church has a program it is using in schools to try to brainwash our children. Surely, it should be taken to task for discrimination. Particularly when the Catholic Church has been harboring homosexuals for centuries - the main reaso...