Morality and Athiesm

There has been a fair bit of debate about how atheists can have morality without some external source providing it. I'm personally in it for the survival of the species. Eventually the earth will be consumed by some catastrophe that will make human life upon it an impossibility. Before that point we have to have colonized other worlds or face extinction. To do so requires a huge number of human beings working in cooperation. Happy people are cooperative people. Therefore it only makes sense to make others happy. Behaving in a moral and ethical manner will tend to increase the percentage of people who are happy.

Aren't we getting old?

Aren't we getting a little too advanced to be believing in fairy tales? You know, stuff like santa claus, the easter bunny, unicorns, griffins, dragons, god, ghosts, UFO's, Mohammed, etc.

Scientific Religion

I have recently read a post by a scientist who is also religious. He wondered why people were having a go at him for believing in a god, whilst at the same time being a scientist. The reason is thus: Your ability to believe in something that there is no evidence for is intellectually dishonest, and makes everything you do as a scientist suspect. Belief is at best irrational, and at worst delusional. Why would we accept any work that you do as "truth" when you clearly demonstrate that you are delusional?

Quotes

Here's my attempt at a ironic quote. "In the beginning, god created the universe out of string..."