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To: Lane3 who wrote (54891)	3/21/2008 1:48:52 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542148

"These are secular questions of fact." Now there you have a problem. Because the genesis of AIDS is not understood, the field is open for believers- that's why it's like religion. Religion often fills up the cracks where science cannot provide answers for people who are unwilling to say "OK, we just don't know"- in that sense the belief about AIDS is a lot more like religion than it is like warts and toads- which can be scientifically studied and the question has been answered. We know all about the wart virus now: ezinearticles.com But we have yet to firmly understand how AIDS came about- until we do FIRMLY and definitively understand it, it will remain ripe for belief- just like the JFK assassination, or any other inconclusively studied event or manifestation, about which much is known, but what we know is not definitive.

To: Lane3 who wrote (54891)	3/21/2008 1:54:42 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542148

<stupid> Many paranoids are also very intelligent. Intelligence does not preclude belief in the irrational. Look at religion, for instance.