To: SJackson
"I've often wondered about that - why do people spend their lives trying to get gorillas to talk? I mean, what can they really tell us?" The same impulse that makes people wax ecstatic about SETI or get all emotional about finding traces of the possibility of life on Mars.
People want very badly to be assured that we are not unique or here by design. Otherwise, we'd have to deal with the Designer. And that's a big " Uh-oh."
7 posted on
03/29/2005 8:33:53 PM PST by
cookcounty
(If a serial bigamist takes 7 common-law wives, can he legally starve all of them to death or only 6?)
To: cookcounty
People want very badly to be assured that we are not unique or here by design. Otherwise, we'd have to deal with the Designer. What? The Designer, the Great Architect of the Universe, can't have done other designs? I think He may very well have done so. Maybe he wants us to figure it out for ourselves, since he did make us curious as cats, and a lot smarter. (Some of us anyway).
36 posted on
03/29/2005 9:50:34 PM PST by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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