Mr. Shaw. And others,

There is such a thing as rational doubt. And room for speculation about things that one may have previously thought were impossible.

I do not believe in the kind of Supreme Being that some people seem to believe in:   the powerfully built, bearded old man dressed in a bed sheet who keeps a careful ledger of who's naughty and who's nice, hurls thunderbolts at the naughty ones, and marks the fall of every sparrow. That, as I see it, is a very limited view of a postulated entity that could have created the entire universe. Basically, it reduces the concept of a "Supreme Being" to that of a mere wizard.

But I could be wrong.

If you have ever read any of the books by Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, with a mind open to expansion and speculation, one may cease to be so rock-solid certain of what one knows about the nature of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Professor Kaku has written such books as Hyperspace, Parallel Worlds, Physics of the Impossible, and several other similar books.

I am not going to try to give a synopsis of his works, but he speculates—and often provides compelling arguments—for a number of things that are very strange about the universe—and the possible—probable—existence of other universes—that should cause one to wonder about a number of things and not be so bloody certain about other things that one might have taken as certainties.

He is in no way a theologian and I don't know what his religious beliefs are, if any. He does not deal with religious concepts. But some of his speculations, with supporting evidence or arguments, can cause one to expand one's mind a bit and consider some things in a whole new light that one might have simply written off as impossible or mere superstition.

Don Firth