[js1138]

So do I, but only within the limits science is able to demonstrate.

Can science demonstrate that there was a supernova in the 11th century that was seen by humans on earth?

[Mamzelle]

Compared with their fanicful story of human consciousness developing by random mutation and a bloody battle for survival, the story of Genesis is quantum physics. It's not merely opposable thumbs and a bipedal gait that make us distinct from the other beasts. It is consciousness of our mortality, a moral sense, language, mathematics, art, beauty music, love, longings for immortality, a sense of symmetry, the soul's ascent, the ability to accessorize, and our fascination with Branson, Missouri--none of which make sense in Darwinian terms. Darwiniacs like Dennett avoid explaining the human soul by calling the soul an illsuion. As Dennett says, "(If) mindless evolution could account for the breathtakingly clever artifacts of the biosphere, how could the products of our own real minds be exempt from an evolutionary explanation?" She devotes some ink to this Dennett fellow...