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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (68306)	8/31/2005 9:37:16 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Maurice Re: "bit of a yawn" If you believe that our biological processes are very secondary to our divine nature, as I do, then you tend to view these things very differently. I am unable to prove our divine nature, nor do I have any desire to try, but there is a widely held belief that in good time we will each and every one find out for sure. I guess we will just have to wait. <g> Now Maurice, it just seems ridiculous to me that men, even very clever men, could bring together engineering materials to be arranged in a particular order and that after the stimulation of these inert materials with electrical energy, that these materials would spring to life, self sustaining and replicating life with the survival urge, indeed our very equal or superior. I just don't buy it. When we don't even have a clue about what gravity actually IS, or magnetic flux or many other natural forces, it doesn't seem likely to me that any "anti-gravity" device is forthcoming. Oh sure, we can measure gravity and magnetic flux and many other things and we have developed a vast body of PREDICTIVE mathematics to estimate the effect of these various natural forces under different circumstances. But what we DON'T have is even a scintilla of a reasonable theory as to what gravity, for example, actually IS. Compare this void to the various theories (true or otherwise) we have about the nature of light, particle radiation or electron flow. As we live in a world in which these forces are as big a mystery to us as they were in the time of Father Abraham, I think we have a way to go before we should begin to believe that any of our creations are "alive". Slagle