Thank you Donuel. I'm a biologist rather than an astrophysicist (I wasn't good enough at maths at school, a point well detected by DMcG when he picks me up on my asymptotes), so I don't always follow your forays into the deeper recesses of spacetime and dark matter. Trying to be as rational as possible means a lot to me, having had to re-educate myself away from the baleful shackles of Catholicism (there was no-one else to do it for me). You only have to read some of the recent, rather abject posts from Pete and Joe Offer to see what a deliberate stifling of the intellect by religion can do to one.   On the other hand I love classical music and Renaissance painting and sculpture and have spent several days this week in a wonderful city full of baroque architecture and superb churches, not to speak of Roman and pre-Roman remains (and amazing restaurants). More of that later. I'm not Mr Spock and I have no problems with indulgence in whimsy, fantasy and the highest flights of imagination. But I don't care what anyone says. There is no Beyond, no divine presence and no truth without evidence. And anyone who disagrees with that is an absolutist. Whatever that stupid word means.