Sitting in an outdoor hot tub in the Cadcade mountains...

[brooklynite]

...staring up at the Milky Way galaxy and the odd meteor, I think the problem with Religious Fundamentalists is that they have no sense of scale: either how big the Universe is, or how old it is...

[laconicsax]

1. Yes, that is one problem, for there are many.

[rrneck]

2. They aren't measuring the universe

They're measuring their own faith. And a religious media empire is selling them the yardstick.

[Deep13]

3. Seems pretty egotistical to accept the geocentric creation myth. nt

[laconicsax]

4. No more so than believing that you have a personal relationship...

with the all-powerful, all-knowing creator of the universe.

[Deep13]

5. Who created us in His image.

Yes, the mind-blowing vastness of the cosmos and its 13 billion year history--it's all for the talking apes on this one little speck of dust.

[laconicsax]

6. But the REAL arrogance is not believing it.

[Arugula Latte]

7. YES!

I often think that.

How tiny minded and self-centered do you have to be to think that the last two thousand years are the most important time period out of several billion, or that in the unimaginable vastness of the universe, where there are billions of galaxies, let alone planets, that this little blue ball is the center of it all and these hairless apes are the focus of an invisible hovering ghost who pulls our strings like we're marionettes.

Pathetic.