Roll on the 20th June

[legendre]

Legendre  things to ponder  things no man living can say one way or the other man tries to understand and explain our world   seems its always been that way a comfort in knowing real or imagined   I suppose one day it will be known maybe in a last breath or a white light or complete darkness who is to say   live while the liven is good   make the world a better place   or not      Chet

You're exactly right in that no living person present to us, can, with veracity, answer these questions. That said, Darwin's 'Origin of Species' (sometimes balled up as the "Theory of Evolution") does a fair job of explaining the things which it sets out to explain. In addition to Darwin, we know some other very useful things about how the universe exits - but as to why it exists is an open question, and one that real science has never claimed to answer.

With respect to an intelligent designer, if there were some magical being which repeatably showed up to interrupt physical laws - things like turning water into wine, raising the dead, parting the sea, holding up the righteous, punishing sinners and so forth - it might make sense to attribute the existence and state of the universe to this seemingly omnipotent being. But since no such being is apparent, any conclusions based on this idea are lacking a basis in objective reality.

If some folks who thought the world flat, the stars to be pinholes in the firmament, that a rainbow is a manifestation of love, while the labor of childbirth is a curse - and hadn't yet even risen to the ignorance of believing that personal temperaments were linked to certain bodily fluids - told me that some entity (with a hundred names) did all this, then I'd be a bit skeptical.. as I remain.

I'm not getting on you personally about this - I know that some other person put this kind of crap into your head, when you were too young to resist it, much less know better. But please - you're smarter than the average bear, so work hard to make these things clear in your mind, and respect and appreciate yourself for doing so, once it's accomplished (not as easy as it sounds).

-L

[The Eskimo Quinn]

So much for the alias and the fairy stories told by those who want you to doubt, credibility must be proven, for the truth is easy to hide.

what about that bullshit story on the RV they were flashing about, loved that one, I said I built a 25 foot mobile home from scratch in 6 weeks, not pissed on the side of an old truck for 6 seconds. I do the impossible, not play with the every day horseshit.

Can?t build???  Baby there is nothing I can?t build.

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[The Eskimo Quinn]

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[legendre]

So much for the alias and the fairy stories told by those who want you to doubt, credibility must be proven, for the truth is easy to hide.

No, credibility must be proven, for the truth is conducive to verification.

It's one thing to say that you've seen a working perpetual motion machine.. and if I knew you personally, I might even believe you under the right circumstances..

But it's another thing entirely for you to make such a claim publicly.. without offering any supporting evidence. For instance, any working machine would suffice..

A perpetual motion machine may exist, and I'm fine with that. But if you can't bring your claimed machine into use, then what's the point? How useful is a PM machine that cannot be built??

I think this is all in your head, Take a look in there, you might find it in a dusty corner.,.

-L