Mike Maxwell wrote:

Laura wrote:

Bible scholars (is that an oxymoron?) seem to agree that life is
unique to
the Earth. Of course, they also believe the earth is 6000 years old
and that
it's the center of the universe.


I seem to be missing the quantifiers in the posting on my ng server,
maybe they got omitted when your posting got transferred across the
net. Did your original posting say "Some Bible scholars"? And in the
case of your last fact(oid) (= that "they" believe it is the center of
the universe), did you perhaps say "some Bible scholars who have been
dead for 500 years"?

For that matter, I've never heard any Bible scholar express the
opinion that life was unique to Earth, although I've heard some say
that perhaps the opposite is true. ("Perhaps", because they didn't
want to be dogmatic.) But maybe you limit your input from Bible
scholars to late night TV.

Mike McSwell

What's the difference if the religious bull is on 'Late Night' or 'Early
Morning'... it certainly is not on at 'Prime Time'. We all know the
Religions are Anti-Science. We all know about the war of Science Vs.
Religion. Who do you think is going to win that war? Do you think folks
will want to go back to the 'Dark Ages' of the hypocritical religious
myths and superstitious ignorance of the past, or will they want to move
on to the bright and glorious future that the promise of Science portends?