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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (16949)	6/16/2001 10:48:43 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

What makes more sense? That a mystical invisible being exists that people of different places insist upon seeing differently even though this mystical being is constant, or that people are wired to see mystical beings and make them up based on whatever context they grow up in? I'd say hypothesis number two is more rational based on cross cultural and cross temporal data. It is very hard to explain the variation of mystical invisible and possibly imaginary beings. And so far no one has delivered a piece of the almighty or almighties or their choice. Since tangible proof is so definitely lacking (save for the tangible "proof" that stuff exists and thus "stuff" proves the existence of an invisible being- quite the logical stretch- even for invisible watchmaker lovers) rational "belief" seems a contradiction in terms. But one can understand why that yanks the chains of the faithful.