Susan,

I, too, was hoping to have a talk here that wasn't about why people hate certain religious doings. Many here have done that admirably well. For me, it's not that deep. I don't see evidence around me that supernatural stuff happens. I do see that, if I search long and hard enough, many aspects of Charles Darwin and science theories have proven accurate, and will continue to prove true because they are analyzed correctly with good (not bad) science. That won't be because of my just saying that, no matter how fantastic (meaning full of fantasy) claims in some book might be. That might be things like, say, "all creation in a few days" or "Icarus flying into the sun" or "infants being brought by storks" or "parting the Red Sea" or any of a million things people have CHOSEN to give credence to just because they decide to believe in it.

I might get scared by things that go bump (or bang) in the night when I can't find the sources of those right off the bat. But if I interpret that noise as being the ghost of the previous occupant of the house without seeing or talking to that spirit thing, well, shame on me. I've never, personally, seen an alien either, so I doubt those too. Still, the fact that we are HERE makes me "feel" that THEY might be THERE too... But I need proof.

Art