Amazing that we happened to have the same name, as well as a similar screen name, AND are atheists! of course, I'm in the US, I'm assuming you are in the UK?

Gregorius

I think also that Man has always wanted comfort in KNOWING, and having a god of thunder, a god of volcanos, a god of whatever natural disaster brought fears to ancient man explained why these calamities happened. Of course the explanations were not founded upon the REAL causes of natural disasters, but just a resignation that some unseen powerful force was in control of Earth's natural turbulences. Ancient Man called this unseen force GOD, and no other explanation was needed. This GOD thus served as the answer to all of life's unknowns, from ancient times, to, (amazingly) the present. It is time for mankind to understand that, indeed , the creation of gods was useful to our "ape ancestry" to fallaciously "explain" the unexplainable, but gods are no longer necessary as a faulty explanation- Science quite successfully eliminates any need for a god in every culture on our planet, and the sooner we as a species accepts this, the better for our world.

Gregorius