I don't think your insane...The same argument can be said about most
religions in this world. I have never seen any evidence first hand
concerning alien encounters, but the same can be said about most religious
beliefs. The chances are greater that we will encounter aliens now, or
sometime in the near future. On the other hand, the same cannot be said on
the religious side of things.

Jim, take a good look around you. At everything...land, sky, and
sea.....look at all the flora and fauna....

Can you honestly say that there is not a force that is responsible for the
creation of everything? Doesn't matter what your definition is of this
force, just that there is one. A benevolent being, a mystical psychic force,
a random (however unlikely) arrangement of matter that exploded into
space/time as we know it.

There had to be a beginning; a time when nothing was something. This is God.
I agree that the vision of a wise old man who made is precisely in "his"
image is silly, but it's even more silly to believe that there is nothing
behind all of this.

"Stanley Barthfarkle" wrote in message .com...
I don't think your insane...The same argument can be said about most
religions in this world. I have never seen any evidence first hand
concerning alien encounters, but the same can be said about most religious
beliefs. The chances are greater that we will encounter aliens now, or
sometime in the near future. On the other hand, the same cannot be said on
the religious side of things.

Jim, take a good look around you. At everything...land, sky, and
sea.....look at all the flora and fauna....

Can you honestly say that there is not a force that is responsible for the
creation of everything? Doesn't matter what your definition is of this
force, just that there is one. A benevolent being, a mystical psychic force,
a random (however unlikely) arrangement of matter that exploded into
space/time as we know it.

There had to be a beginning; a time when nothing was something. This is God.
I agree that the vision of a wise old man who made is precisely in "his"
image is silly, but it's even more silly to believe that there is nothing
behind all of this.

Of course there is "something" behind all of this. But to think that
it was a breathing "God" is pretty far fetched, much more far fetched
than a random arrangement of matter. Now, it could be said, "where did
the matter come from"? But, the same could be said, "where did this
god come from"?

"Stanley Barthfarkle" wrote in snip
Jim, take a good look around you. At everything...land, sky, and
sea.....look at all the flora and fauna....

Can you honestly say that there is not a force that is responsible for the
creation of everything? Doesn't matter what your definition is of this
force, just that there is one. A benevolent being, a mystical psychic
force,
a random (however unlikely) arrangement of matter that exploded into
space/time as we know it.

There had to be a beginning; a time when nothing was something. This is
God.
snip

Yeah, but would a benevolent God create blood thirsty, greedy, gun luvin'
right wingers to polute the land?

"Don White" wrote in message ...
"Stanley Barthfarkle" wrote in snip
Jim, take a good look around you. At everything...land, sky, and
sea.....look at all the flora and fauna....

Can you honestly say that there is not a force that is responsible for the
creation of everything? Doesn't matter what your definition is of this
force, just that there is one. A benevolent being, a mystical psychic
force,
a random (however unlikely) arrangement of matter that exploded into
space/time as we know it.

There had to be a beginning; a time when nothing was something. This is
God.
snip

Yeah, but would a benevolent God create blood thirsty, greedy, gun luvin'
right wingers to polute the land?

Maybe he was thinking that carnivorous prehistoric animals would still
be roaming, and would need something to eat!

"Don White" wrote in message ...
"Stanley Barthfarkle" wrote in snip
Jim, take a good look around you. At everything...land, sky, and
sea.....look at all the flora and fauna....

Can you honestly say that there is not a force that is responsible for the
creation of everything? Doesn't matter what your definition is of this
force, just that there is one. A benevolent being, a mystical psychic
force,
a random (however unlikely) arrangement of matter that exploded into
space/time as we know it.

There had to be a beginning; a time when nothing was something. This is
God.
snip

Yeah, but would a benevolent God create blood thirsty, greedy, gun luvin'
right wingers to polute the land?

Maybe he was thinking that carnivorous prehistoric animals would still
be roaming, and would need something to eat!