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QJM Advance Access published online on October 6, 2009
QJM, doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcp130
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Physicians. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

‘There's probably no God; now stop worrying and enjoy yourself’

D. J. Galton

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The above advertisement has appeared on the sides of about 800 national buses. It is sponsored by the Atheist Society, Richard Dawkins, and others. One bus driver in Southampton, who is a committed Christian, refused to drive his bus bearing the advert. Ron Heather said: ‘I felt I could not drive that bus. I told my managers, and when they said they had not got another I thought I better go home. So I did.’ He did not lose his job for making this stand.

Perhaps two scientists who have most directly led to the views in this advertisement are Galileo (1564–1642) and Darwin (1809–82). Both made discoveries that directly contradicted the fundamental teachings of the Bible. Galileo obtained evidence that the geocentric (or Ptolemaic) view of the universe was wrong and that the heliocentric view was probably correct. Darwin obtained strong evidence that man evolved from the primates and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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