Heartland

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!"

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?

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.

I think we need a decent definition of intelligence first.

We're a virus with shoes

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

Good to know aliens fart.

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...

A Martian Sunset