Personal experience here. When I was a young Marine and far from home, I once engaged in conversation with what I thought to be at the time, an "extra"-ordinary young lady, while consuming copious quantities of beer in a darkened corner of a local bar. One thing led to another and I spent the rest of that evening with her, blind drunk by her beauty (and the beer). In the morning, as the sun crept up over the mountains, filtering through the hair on her back and into my now sobering eyes, I caught the first true sight of the beast. So YES, I am a believer that these things can, and do, exist. I may still have one of her teeth kicking around here somewhere as proof. ;) Ooops, the topic was SETI not YETI. In that case... nevermind! ;) Quoting Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com>:
Well, keeping in mind that I was simply showing the ease of reversing an argument, and most definitely not saying that I thought EITHER argument was good....... I would have to agree, Beer and handsome men ARE proof of God..... :)
At 01:11 PM 9/6/2004 -0700, you wrote:
--- Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com> wrote:
I'm always astonished that scientists and lay persons alike are so willing to accept the possibility that God exists, without the remotest shred of evidence...
On the contrary! In a similar discussion some time back (a year or so ago now probably), Chuck and others cited Beer and beautiful women as absolute certain proof... ;o)
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