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To: one_less who wrote (93901)	1/18/2005 12:56:05 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The space alien theory is much better documented than the god theory. Thousands of eyewitness testimonies concerning alien visitations to our planet, versus no eyewitness testimonies concerning god. Even Moses never claimed to have seen god. And the anal probing that space aliens tend to subject humans to is consistent with a genetic engineering program ... they need to make periodic examinations to make sure everything is proceeding as planned.

To: one_less who wrote (93901)	1/18/2005 2:35:44 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Where did I mock your (or anyone's) beliefs in that post? The issue was about scientists' tendency or non-tendency to be dogmatically religious (that's where it started, anyway). The fact is my room analogy is very straightforward and presuming it wasn't a kiln or intended to fire bricks or bake bread, we could establish some objective measures with which we use to establish "proper temperature" for the human occupants. Such a consensus might leave some people wearing coats. Too bad. The other option is to have some strip naked. That is generally less acceptable to most people. A device to assure general comfort in a room can be designed and is called a thermostat and in most companies, individuals don't get to set the temperature for the entire operation but only the general temperature for the office divisions, by consensus. I believe the reason you infer mocking is that it is a particularly apt analogy and you don't like it. I can't help how you feel reading my post(s).