Indeed .... I have no religious beliefs and as an advocate of the rationality of the scientific method have grave concerns as to how the clash of ideologies will play out ..... everyone's happy to tell me I should stop driving cars, travelling and eating meat (even though the last one is the default of the Human Animal I am for a million years) .... who's going to tell the Indians they need to cull their cows? .... or the various dogmatic believers around the world that scripturally encouraged breeding for the glory of your particular god (and the voting demoghraphic of your theocratic leaders) is ultimately killing the planet?
My nightmare scenario is that the rational inhabitants of this planet will weaken their economies and reduce their populations while the irrational will cling to their gods and breed themselves into de facto world control .... the clock turned back on centuries of hard won rational thought .... to my mind a catastrophic reversal of the ideal outcome.
K
