Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe. Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question … is God an accident?

As seen on Metafilter, where you can read a good, wide-ranging discussion on the issues raised by article.

Despite my tendency to sneeze photically whenever I so much as think of the sun, I really like the photographs submitted to the Solar Max group on Flickr:

A good rule of thumb, though not absolute: If it hurts your eyes to look at your subject, or through the viewfinder, chances are you’ve got a good Solar Max canidate.

If this is true, it is our duty as VMAT2-lacking atheists, agnostics and all round unspiritualists to fuck each and every fundamentalist we encounter, so that we might slowly rid the world of this unfortunate evolutionary aberration. (Homosexals may prefer to deposit their sperm or eggs at religion-friendly fertility clinics.)

No matter how vile a prospect this may be - the religous do tend to ming rather - or how tricky you might find it to get a religious person into bed without converting to their faith and marrying them, you must try your best, lest members of the human race be bound forever to theism, pantheism and polytheism.