Daylia, you write,

* As long as human beings can not explain simple cases of thought transference, cannot explain prediction and prognostication, cannot explain glimpses of the "other side", cannot explain altruism, cannot, for heaven's sake, even explain love, there is a whole hell of a lot that they don't know."

Ah but the trouble is that so many religious folks claim to know a helluva lot about a lot of things and have nothing to prove their assertions. It's not true that altrusim can't be explained. It has been many times. It's a societal protection for the species. Love can be explained also. There are different kinds of "love" and being in love is kind of a delusional behavioral pattern. Thought transference is easilly explained. Two people can think of the same idea at the same time by reacting similarly to their environment. Prognostication for the most part is a sham. Even the term "prophet" has been bowlderized from its original meaning which was that of an "artist", "poet" and "musician". The religious prophecy can't be proven at all by scientific means. Therefore, I think it doesn't really exist. Glimpses of "the other side" are merely conditioning by years of religious indoctrination. The so-called "return from the dead experiences" have never been authenticated by any scientist that I know of.

Frank