Ayn Rand wrote “…if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking…. the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.”
Anyone who seriously doubts Darwinian evolution has either not looked at the evidence or has not assumed the responsibility of thought about it. The evidence for evolution and life’s common ancestry is so vast, so overwhelming, crossing fields from biochemistry to paleontology, that to deny it betrays either ignorance or willful blindness.
By contrast, the evidence for the existence of a god is: nothing.
Atheism is not merely attractive to scientists. It is attractive to any rational person who assumes the responsibility of thinking for himself.
