Self Certified Genius of the World

    PZ Myers the Saint of Atheism has started a nice little regular column on his blog called "Why I am an Atheist" ( http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula ). There have been so many people writing to him, and him posting them, that the original post is now lost in the sands of time. Anyways, I thought since I am an atheist too, why not chronicle my journey into atheism. After all, whats the point of calling myslef a self-certified genius and not acting narcissistic ? So, here we go :     I am Krishna Dev Oruganty, and I was born and brought up in India. My first experiments with the deity began around the age of 7 or 8. My grandmother had died around the time. I had not had much contact with my grandma, since we were in Delhi and she was in A.P, miles away. I remember that my mother and father were upset when they got the telegram (remember those?), and my father even booked an airplane ticket to go to A.P. I envied him for flying like that, an...

    When we were in school, we had to study both English prose and poetry. I found the poetry part quite boring, as I could not really understand any of it. Some people, I guess, get so engrossed in making things rhyme that they lose track of what the heck they were trying to say. That was my opinion of most poetry. The only guy I kind of liked at the time was Ogden Nash. But wait a minute, a quick search in google reveals that "am I a child or an adult" was actually written by Margaret Lawrence. OK, forget everything I said about Ogden Nash. BTW, Margaret Lawrence apparently wrote that poem when she started an illicit affair with her teacher at the age of 14. Some people have all the fun in the world. Forget about that too, because this post is all about science, thats right, fooled you didnt I ? Or maybe I harmed my own blog by twisting my own arguments, hmmm needs some thinking...    Anyways, the actual content of the post is not so much the poem, but t...