Maynard Smith speaks
Take a look at this fascinating interview with John Maynard Smith—he talks about all kinds of things in evolutionary theory, but he also talks about religion. It will confirm some people's impression of evolution that he specifically cites Darwin's Origin as the book that made him apostate. "I think it was an enormous relief to escape from religion," he says.
I've been writing too much about this lately, but I think that's right. While someone can continue to believe in a god or gods and still do science, evolution makes religion superfluous, and once you've got a rational alternative, why stick with unsupported beliefs in remarkably silly superstitions? Evolution is anti-religious in the sense that it removes the rationale for religion.
(via UberKuh)
It's amazing the places where creationist yahoos show up to spew their crap.
Yahoo has a creationist page? ;)