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Taz's Master wrote:
For those scientists that are convinced by evolution and are anti-religion, my question is this: Why are you inclined to stamp out a facet of ourselves that has evolved with us? Nature has provided us with a desire to believe in God and develop religion, and this has been a help in our ascendence (sic)to planet's dominant organism. Do you not believe that man's interest in religion and God is a product of evolution, or have you decided to live outside of the natural world?



This is a serious question? You have sent time formulating this? Wow.
OK, there are many things that have developed in our evolution that we try to control. Birth sex (evidence of this goes back thousands of years), health, disease, birth defects, all types of breeding results, cancer, violence, bigotry, etc. All of these things are natural, and yet we have tried or succeeded in altering them. Just because something is “natural” doesn’t mean it is good (nor bad).

Nature has predisposed some of us to become drug addicts or alcoholics. Gene research indicates this is a difference between the majority who are not susceptible and those that are. Should we not try to stamp out this weakness?