Re: Science and Religion

From: Denis Loubet (dloubet_at_io.com)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:53:12 -0500

"Gactimus" <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote in message
news:chdarb$16o8$1@news.wplus.net...
> Why do so many people believe there's extraterrestrial life?

Because we can see terrestrial life, and we have the ability to extrapolate.

> This is certainly the subject of many popular magazines and blockbuster
> movies. But what are some of the motives behind this?

Motive? There's no motive. We see terrestrial life, and we can extrapolate.

If you're asking about the motive behind the magazines and movies, then that
would be money.

What are you, some kind of moron?

> One renowned science fiction writer suggests that extraterrestrials may be
> continuously broadcasting an easily decoded 'Encyclopedia Galactica' which
> will answer the basic questions of life.

Ain't speculation wonderful?

> The chief of NASA's Extraterrestrial
> Research Division says that 'Just the detection of one signal would answer
> many fundamental questions like ..."What are we doing here?" ... "Where
are
> we going?"'

Unlikely. It would more likely create more questions.

> We do need answers to life's questions. But we don't need to wait for such
an
> 'Encyclopedia Galactica' from outer-space aliens, because God has already
> given us what we could call an 'Encyclopedia Biblica' right here on Earth!
In
> other words, the Bible, God's Word, does contain the answers to questions
> that philosophers and scientists have been asking for centuries. And it
all
> starts with Genesis!

So killing homosexuals, for example, is one of these entries in the
Encyclopedia Galactica, is it? Killing witches? Killing children for making
fun of bald men? Killing, killing, killing.

You have a sucky encyclopedia.

> The motive behind this search for aliens is that most scientists don't
want
> to believe the Bible.

The search for aliens might be to find someone who isn't a fundamentalist
idiot like yourself to talk to.

Fucktard. 

-- 
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
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