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markfiend wrote:So does this mean that God-the-son has been bouncing round the universe, incarnating again and again, only to be repeatedly crucified?
Reminds me a road-safety sign I saw once outside the very small town of Chloride, Arizona. It said "Please drive carefully - every week, one man is the victim of a car accident in Chloride."

Some wag had appended, "And he's getting seriously pissed off about it!"
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Thing is, could we consider a species who believes in God to be intelligent?

ie. despite there being NO evidence whatsoever, they believe in a trans-dimensional bogeyman?
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nodubmanshouts wrote:Thing is, could we consider a species who believes in God to be intelligent?
ie. despite there being NO evidence whatsoever, they believe in a trans-dimensional bogeyman?
We aren't an intelligent species so how should we be able to recognize one? Well, maybe a few individuals are but generally we're no different from poisonous sponges fighting over some rock in the dark depth of the ocean.
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I think we need a decent definition of intelligence first.
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It may not be little green men with togas and anal probes (don't look so disappointed!) but there is something going on on Mars: http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7828
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Good to know aliens fart.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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When the headline says "Mars is not a dead planet" it's slightly misleading; it means geologically dead, not necessarily biologically.

Having said that, it's a remarkable discovery, and it could be due to biological activity...
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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