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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (6006)	3/31/2002 11:08:17 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Good morning JC, and Happy Easter to you. As you've realized, this seems to be the place where all the SI atheists and agnostics (and whatever the Hell else they call themselves -g) hang out. Most of them are my friends and I accept their views, even when I disagree with them. However, on the topic of faith, I think arguments about logic, provability and the scientific method are completely off the mark. To me, faith in God exists outside all the usual arguments. If people don't have it, that's cool. For those of us who do, we know what we have. We're happy that we have it. It's unimportant how many scientists have faith, or how many politicians, philosophers or poets have it. It's unimportant whether or not the faithful are smart or male or people of color. We are not better because we have faith and we are not worse.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (6006)	3/31/2002 12:49:10 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

You are wrong I do not "Believe" it I would not worship it I would not tithe to it and I wouldn't do anything in the Big Bang Book just because it was in the Big Bang Book It is an interesting theory I don't totally understand it, but it interests me If something else comes along that is also interesting I will learn about that Would it be rational to "beleive" this? No what is rational is to think, hmmmm, interesting theory if you or anyone out there is "beleiving" in theories then you missed the main point in introductory science, the one about "theories"