In article <D5Doh.14458$yC5.13708@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>,
 "BogusID" <BogusID@YesItIs.com> wrote:

Purely a semantic argument, since neither ARE conclusively proven today, and 
both imply an element of faith and conviction toward one's position.

Again, you are wrong.  ET life is something that is very possible,
and we have all kinds of evidence that suggests that it is possible.
We just haven't conclusively found it yet.

Religion is something for which there is zero evidence to suggest
that it is even possible, despite over 2000 years of research by
very passonate people trying to show that it is true.  In fact, it
hasn't even been conclusively shown that Jesus ever existed.

I'm sure devoutly religious persons could use the exact same argument 
against Darwin's theories of evolution as related to humans, because of the 
missing link.

There is no such thing as a "missing link".  That is something that
was made up by ignorant people who were trying to make fun of Darwin.
These same people made up the concept of a thing called a "geologic
column", which is something else that doesn't exist.  The style of
argument that they use is invalid.  They make up something that isn't
in the theory, show that it isn't true, then conclude that the theory
is invalid.

At any rate, every aspect of evolution has been conclusively proven
without a shadow of a doubt.  The only question left in evolution
is if it was THE single factor in the origin of species, or if it
was only A factor (among others) in the origin of species.

Hmmm, wait, maybe everyone is right, perhaps alien gods helped us to evolve 
and deposited us here, so OUR very existence proves both cases :-)

You can postulate anything once you are willing to ignore logic
and evidence.  That is why it is so dangerous to deal with anyone
who is religious--they will believe just about anything.  Just
look at how fast the religious people in Germany were to adopt
NAZI beliefs, and how eager they were to kill millions of people
such as jews and gypsies.

-john-

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