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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] I dunno; it got back on topic for half-a-second there... :-) Y'know what's interesting? The more things are scientifically explained, the smaller role a god plays in any of it. Thousands of years ago, lightning was spontaneous flashes of light that came out of the sky for no reason and killed stuff. What could cause that? Must be a god. Oh, wait, we just figured out that it's electricity. So it isn't a godly light after all. But where did the electricity come from? [i]That[/i] must be where the god comes in. But what's this? It's actually caused by a negative charge on the Earth and a positive charge in the atmosphere, resulting in electrons flowing upward? So now where's the god? Must be the one who invented electrons, or something. Or how about tides? Water goes up, water goes down. Water goes up, water goes down. Must be gods. Oh, it's the moon? Well, gods put the moon there. Oh, it broke off of the Earth during an asteroid impact? Well, gods threw the asteroid at us. Asteroids are perfectly normal in the solar system? Well, gods made the solar system. It was formed out of coalescing dust in a swirling accretion disc after the collapse of a nebula? Um... Gods did that. People keep making up gods to explain stuff until we figure it out scientifically. Then they use gods for the scientific unknowns, until those are figured out, too. Doesn't it follow that, as the gods' roles get pushed further and further out, they'll eventually be gone? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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