Atheist prog?

Thanks for posting that Peart letter. That was great. Makes me  want to read his non Rush writting even more.


Jethro Tull... Someone said Ians beliefe in christ was fact, someone said he is an atheist. how bout some documentation (other than the obvious song lyrics). I always fancied him an old world celtic mythos believer.

 Did no one follow the link to the gospel of FSM? We've  got to get moving on these eyepatches before the polar ice caps melt and drown us all.


Laurent, I wanted to say the same thing but couldn't come up with a tactful was to say it. Good job.

man@arms wrote:  Well stated!  I've thoroughly enjoyed this thread, probably because I too am an atheist.  I came from a Christian family and even though I tried going to church on several occasions it was always an effort to force myself to believe in any of it.  My rationale being that believing in God or Christ was no different than believing in the Loch Ness Monster or the Tooth Fairy.  It is just fantasy and make believe.  I am more scientific in that I want hard evidence.  However I do believe that life exists outside of planet earth, though I have no proof.  But, the universe is so vast and complex how could life not exist elsewhere?  Of course this is just me going on another tangent.

 Thanks. Id like hard evidence also. something coded into the nature of the universe would be cool. If you've read the book 'Contact' by carl sagan and (oops forgot her name) you know what I mean. In the book during the contact with the alien being we are told that in the calculation for pie can be found the code for a circle, pie being mathmatics about the measurment of a circle... hard coded evidence of an intentional design of the universe. Left out of the movie of course which really had an almost  opposite message from the book. That's hollywood for ya though.

 I think in the end for us scientificly minded types it comes down to probabilities. It's just more likely that there is life on other planets that for a specific creation myth to be true. So its easy to have faith in things that are probable. Btw did you get caught up in the discovery of liquid water on Io? I'm not convinced it's all that important but its still pretty cool.