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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (96356)	4/25/2003 10:43:10 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<solid evidence> Depends on who is societies' arbiters of Truth. To many, scientists are just the priest class of a Secular Humanist religion, and therefore their pronouncements and writings have no more validity than what other holy men say. So, for instance, I believe in genes and atoms. Why? I've never seen one, and neither have you, or anyone else I know. When I see "proofs" that they exist, or even pictures of them in the sacred texts of the scientists, I accept those proofs because I Believe in Science. When I see a picture in a book, of an electron microscop image of a chromasome, I depend entirely on others to tell me what it means. I have no direct evidence. What meaning I get from it, depends on trusting the people who took the picture and interpreted it. So, the proofs rest on revealed truth by Authority I accept. Just like the Bible.