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Instar is right, care has to be taken in this process. Many conservative agendas portray Genetics as a negative and evil thing, but it's far from it and only used to energize the close minded.

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Actually I am against the genetic labratory gene splicing thing. I have to say that it alarms me.

A new thought:

What if God had nothing to do with our creation. What if God created the race, be it by evolution or by *ZAP* your created, that then after eons created us? What if they are here right now but we simply cannot see them. What if they can manipulate time in a way that we have not yet concieved of?

It was an amazing thought when I ponder the possibility that God may not have created us, but instead created, or had a part in, the creation of the races that in turn created us.

Think about it, here we are doing the samething now with genetics, creating new plant and animal hybrids. It is also quite possible that in the forseeable future that we might even create an Artifical Intelligence like androids, robots, and other. Mechonisims that can think and anticipate and interact with us. Granted they will not have a soul, the thing that makes us human, but they will have something entirely differant. Eventually the technology can develop to the point where our inventions will create / reproduce themselves, and quite possible, one day invent something on their own such as a new life form.

What if the cycle has gone on and one and on since the beginning of time itself?

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To mea more likely thought would be that god/alien created humans to improve or replicate himself, however we humans wouldn't remain under his control and we drove him off the planet and he took revenge on humanity before we finally got rd of him - assuming he existed in any form at all.

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That would make for some good books. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif The God Wars of Earth

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lol, If we do it, we need to have a sequel where man faces off against AI in The Human Wars of Earth .. Or maybe Plearth?

Plearth, if anyone watches George Carlin, is the ultimate goal of Earth. Earth could not create plastic, so humans were made to make plastic and once we make enough of it, the earth will destroy us and absorb all the plastic into itself creating Plearth.

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I feel like I'm bringing a wet noodle to a gun fight somehow.

But.

For me, watching an hour or more of what the Hubble telescope sees, does wonders for my peace of mind.
I know where I came from, and I know where I will be some day.
It just isn't some place called heaven or hell.

I watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos episode "The Backbone of Night" and I know why man insists on pursuing religion.
I can understand why some need their religion.
But I see it for what it is.

And it doesn't matter if I don't know how old or big the universe is. Or exactly what moment life was created on earth, or specifically how.

It is enough, that I know why religion is here.
And it is enough to know, I will not be able to stop looking, just because of what is written in one of the many books claiming to know.

Some day the person I am, will die. That much I know.
What happens next, it isn't written in any religion's books of teachings.

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We are all star stuff.

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In yesterday's news, a man suddenly spoke and rememebered his family after an accident 10 years ago.

Is 10 years in an institution man's free will or an act of god?

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I think they're called comas, but not being a MD I could be mistaken.

I think it pointless to see god in anything I can't currently understand.

I think it just as pointless to blame god for anything I think was harsh or unfair (war, death and famine), as giving god credit for anything nice and generous (seemingly miraculous events).

God is the ultimate placebo. But that is about all god is.