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To: Rambi who wrote (66001)	11/30/2004 1:58:45 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I've seen bits and pieces. Will probably order the entire series. It's absolutely fascinating. One of the best things I've ever seen on PBS. But like you, I have no faith, though I am struggling with the notion that "God" is something so incomprehensible that its existence might be too easily discounted given our paltry minds and senses. C. S. Lewis analogized to the existence of the Sun; even if not seen, it informs everything. If we were all blind, we would have hugely different notions of what the Sun is and what it does. Same with God. Freud, of course, was coldly rational. As I appreciate the essence of what he said, faith is the search for causality, i.e., the answer to the question "why are we here," a question that he thought should not be answered by reference to myths and superstitions. I recall reading that a small disturbance in the manner in which the Big Bang took place would have lead to a dead universe with no stars, no planets, and no life. A very special, very narrow set of physical conditions beginning with the Big Bang were required to create life and, ultimately, consciousness. I am no scientific expert, and obviously cannot argue the point logically, but if this is true, then the fact that we are conscious beings is indeed remarkable. According to the program, a very strange thing happened to Lewis's wife. She had bone cancer when he married her. They spent a short, very happy, time together until her disease almost killed her. As a final recourse, Lewis got a priest who supposedly had healing hands to pray over her at her deathbed. She recovered and had a five year remission. When I hear about things like these, I think I'd better withhold judgment. I think I'll undergo a terribly sincere conversion on my deathbed. Just in case.