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To: lexcorp
Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger (Nobel prize for his equations used in Quantum Mechanics) were convinved that reality exists Amazingly, so am I.

Even Einstein couldn't prove it -- but at least we're in good company! :)

And Islam doesn;t seem to be a winner... how any people who live like the Flintstones can feel that they are Allah's special little kiddies is beyond me...

Again we agree . . . So do some of them -- apparently terrorism is a response by some to the recognition of that dissonance. After all, if they follow their Quran they are supposed to achieve success in this world. It is a real quandry for them . . .

the only reasonable choice is agnosticism (deciding "Dunno" and leave it at that until further data comes in

Problem is, the evidence, if it ever comes in, may not in any one person's lifespan. If we have a purpose, it is to find it: purpose, meaning and truth (oversimplification, I know). So we have to try to find truth. It's not likely to hit us over the head one day like a ton of bricks while we are engaged in mindless recreation or workaholism . . .That is why I thought you might like C. S. Lewis . . . More later

205 posted on 12/05/2001 8:12:40 AM PST by AMDG&BVMH
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