[Tired of Taxes]

If I told you that there were already intelligent extraterrestrials on earth...that there were one trillion of them...but that they were the size of bacteria, and deliberately avoided human contact...how in the world could you tell me, "That cannot possibly exist?"

I couldn't tell you whether those extraterrestrials existed or not. But, now, if you also claimed that these extraterrestrials created the universe and the human race and that they expected us to behave in a certain manner, and then you produced a book outlining their moral code, and you asked everyone to follow this code and believe in these beings or else risk eternal damnation after death... well, then I might think you're alittle crazy. ;-)

[Mark Bahner]

"I couldn't tell you whether those extraterrestrials existed or not. But, now, if you also claimed that these extraterrestrials created the universe and the human race and that they expected us to behave in a certain manner, and then you produced a book outlining their moral code, and you asked everyone to follow this code and believe in these beings or else risk eternal damnation after death... well, then I might think you're alittle crazy. ;-)"

A little crazy? Why? How do you have any idea what entities that (may have) created the universe are like? How do you know what their moral code would or would not be?

That's why it seems to me much more appropriate to remain "without knowledge." It's pretty arrogant to claim that you know, for a fact, that there isn't a Creator or Creators, who have rules.

It's one thing to emphatically state that overwhelming scientific evidence argues against certain aspects of various religions (i.e., the Flood, with Noah and his Ark). But to argue that some entity didn't "light off" the Big Bang, and isn't still around watching, seems pretty reckless. Where's the evidence? (And without the evidence, assertions of "truth" are really just religion.)