Religion+Is+Mental+Illness?+-+The+Atheist+Experience

Religion is mental illness

[|24 The Multiverse and Theories of Everything] Prof. Bailyn (ASTR 160) Yale University
[|Religion Is Mental Illness? - The Atheist Experience] What is The Atheist Experience?

The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. [|TED talks] = [|Daniel C. Dennett on What Should Replace Religions] = We need to create new institutions that are replacement of churches. Why aren't there good music made by Atheists? Religion can take the role of ceremony and rituals. Truth is for us to articulate, to get to the bottom of things. Cutting edge science is thrilling. All scientists are all valuable truth seekers. We need organized fact gathering groups since all journalists are not paid enough and dying away: it is dangerous to us all. Wikipedia is good. Occam's razor, Occam's broom churches for sale now (as of June 2011)

=[|'The New Atheism' by Richard Dawkins AAI 2007]=

= [|A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss AAI 2009] = Universe is 13.72 Billion years old. =[|Debate: Does the Universe have a purpose]= Is Science the arbiter of truth? =[|Christopher Hitchens book][|God Is Not Great- How Religion Poisons Everything]= =[|Michael Shermer]= Shermer, drawing on research from neuroeconomics: 1. explores what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and how trust is established in business. 2. shows why people hang on to losing stocks and failing companies, why business negotiations often disintegrate into emotional tit-for-tat disputes and why money does not make us happy. 3. shows how evolution and economics are both examples of a larger phenomenon of complex adaptive systems. 4. considers the consequences of globalization and what will happen if nations allow free trade across their borders. Life is bottom up (there is no top down design by God ) self organizing emergent complex property The world is not created by one fell swoop. Consciousness is our thought. Invisible hand and natural selection Is evolution the rank and yank in business evaluation? It matters for us whether rules are loosely defined (not enforced) or clearly defined in sports and business. Is Science the arbiter of truth? Gossiping is an activity of information gathering (data collection) ultimatum game: 90:10 (unfair??) 50:50 (fair??) It seems silly but is the emotional responses of humans and chimps to the sense of unjust and wrong. It is the laws of economics Emotions also evolving. Emotions are proxies that are motivating us to take action: get food if you are hungry Oxytocin, Dopamine That's neuroeconomics. Evolved emotions cause humans to become socially interactive and cooperative. Enemy of enemy is my friend Yanomama people fiercely fight: 20,000 indigenous people who live in some 200-250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. =[|Origin of Faith - Disturbing]= Stone-Age Amazon tribe performs a sacrificial ritual rooted in tradition. A child is unwanted and is buried alive.

According to Dr Marcos Pelegrini, a doctor working in the Yanomami Tribe Health Care District, 98 children were killed by their mothers in 2004 alone. [|Faith vs Reason - Ayn Rand] = [|Cosmology and Fine-Tuning - Robin Collins - Three Approaches] = Mathematical design of nature =[|The Multiverse - Ultimate Causation and God]=