I have yet to see a single Atheist or Agnostic on TV giving their viewpoint on this.
Why do they go to Guru's and Preachers to "explain" natural science? What do they know about it? Nothing!
This type of geological upheaval has been occuring for millions and billions of years. it has NOTHING to do with humans, we just happen to be here now.
As a matter of fact, Richard Dawkin's has mentioned that if society would spend less money on tax-breaks for religion, and put that money into science, and Tsunami warning systems, then many many lives could have been saved.
Its just an extension of saying that thunder means the Gods are angry, or other primitive ideas.
Coz
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Thursday December 30, 2004
The Guardian
The Bishop of Lincoln (Letters, December 29) asks to be preserved from religious people who try to explain the tsunami disaster. As well he might. Religious explanations for such tragedies range from loopy (it's payback for original sin) through vicious (disasters are sent to try our faith) to violent (after the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, heretics were hanged for provoking God's wrath). But I'd rather be preserved from religious people who give up on trying to explain, yet remain religious.
In the same batch of letters, Dan Rickman says "science provides an explanation of the mechanism of the tsunami but it cannot say why this occurred any more than religion can". There, in one sentence, we have the religious mind displayed before us in all its absurdity. In what sense of the word "why", does plate tectonics not provide the answer?
Not only does science know why the tsunami happened, it can give precious hours of warning. If a small fraction of the tax breaks handed out to churches, mosques and synagogues had been diverted into an early warning system, tens of thousands of people, now dead, would have been moved to safety.
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.
Richard Dawkins
Oxford