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very well said!

<t>cool, cool i get what you're saying. however i don't treat "genesis" in the bible as an explanation of how life began. i don't know how life began. nor do i presume to know how the infinite (or even finite, if that's your bag) universe works. no way. science doesn't know what dark matter is. grav...

sorry about that, interbane. didn't mean to leave you hanging. i don't know that i can address all of your content though. maybe this can shed a little light; my mother is a believer, my stepfather is an atheist. my mother speaks using symbols i have come to understand and be okay with - i see it as...

okay.

hey, thanks for the welcome, robert. bring on the philosophy! i wonder about the epistemological argument. for me - and i speak only for me - it is all belief. it was once 'evidenced' by science that the model of the solar system was heliocentric. as it was once evidenced that the world was flat, th...

awesome. LOVE it.

i couldn't resist:

"For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who don't, none will suffice."
-dunninger

(of course, he was a magician...lol)

thanks, will. i totally appreciate that. and i'm very intrigued by the book. when i say that "people are missing the bigger picture" i meant that others who have religion in their lives in a way that enhances them is what's important. it's dicey to come down on "religion" in gene...

i agree that many religions are rife with allegory and mythology. so are sports. shall i take sports and say that it is responsible for war? a team of men marching down the field in strategic fashion to conquer the territory of those men on the other side. aggression, violence and hostile take-over ...

then again, maybe it's just a catchy title engineered to sell some books.