Redfish Wrote:o how many people have kids and grandkids that can't remember your birthday? That's only 1-2 generations. Nothing comes into existence all on its own. That's absurd.I don't need children or grandchildren (or even great-grandchildren) to forget my birthday... i do that myself

Quote:How many other species can conceive of God? Do we know they don't?
No idea. Considering the size of the universe... probably a great number of them. As for those on Earth... probably not many at all. Of course, this has no bearing on wether we know they do or do not... and to reiterate again that doesn't make one right.
Quote:Superstition fuelled by thirst for knowledge, the desire to know, transcend the mundane. Whether anyone understands? ... You're maybe right there.Scientology?

Quote:Science is consensus. Reality does favour the masses. Or the obscenely rich. ''You create your own reality.'' < Mick Jagger@ each of those assumptions: Not necessarily.

Quote:A lie is a lie is a lie. Quite agree.Or... is it...?

Quote:You mean past history or future history? I believe the jury is still out.<Determinism>.

Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day