Why do Americans believe in God despite all the evidence?????

[Roemerista]

"Our own DNA provides evidence that we ALL originated from Africa. This in one way defeats racism and also creationism."

Well first off, being from one spot does not hurt or help creationism. In fact, I would rather like to hear your reasoning behind...that. Evolution, now that is something that would hurt Creationism.

As to intelligent design, which is what I think you are attacking, ala the big bang theory stuff, I again do not see how geographical origins have anything to do with disproving the initial spark. Evolution does not go against this, surely.

You espouse love of science, but you should practice what you are preaching here! Your arguments may start at A, but you need to go the distance to B! Truly the points you raise are out of an emotional reaction, not a distant rational one. "A billion year project for you to change a flat," leads you to be not from any direct connection but from a "gut" choice.

I'll help you out. If you really want to use science to hurt the faith of someone, talk about the science questioning the existence of free will. This also may go against your obvious Ayn Rand inspired belief system. For one, I'll attack your racist comment. Guess what, racism is not just a cultural thing, and thus isn't merely created by such artificial constructs as religion, as you would say. In fact, brain activity to witnessed events best display empathy when observing someone of a shared culture. I'm not talking about skin color here, but something as subtle as hand gestures. And of course there is the behavioral economics stuff, which chose the irrationality behind many of our presumptive "rational" decisions.

Finally, your suggestion that people want to be slaves because of religion is lacking the basis of rational argument, but is based on faith! Guess what, the individual is not necessarily the be all and end all. We are limited, we are frail, we die. People desire to be slaves, period. Slaves not in the traditional sense, but in a way you would say is slavery (judging from your statement about religion). WE do not want endless choice, we want to be a part of something greater than our selves, we are slaves to society by choice, as we are "political" animals. So what if man is not the supreme entity, if he is or is not, I do not see how you can say either is good without a value statement based on some sort of faith.

I'm not a shamed to say I have faith, but please, put down your Atlas Shrugged, and recognize that you have put your faith in the emotional statement that man unhampered by "religion" would be something great.