"John A. Weeks III" <john@johnweeks.com> wrote in message 
news:john-67DC69.19490908012007@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net...

In article <Oytoh.42957$wc5.25613@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>,
"BogusID" <BogusID@YesItIs.com> wrote:

Interesting...
Life elsewhere has similarities to religion, in that both involve faith
without conclusive evidence :-)

Not true at all.  Life elsewhere can be conclusively proven.  All
we need is one such example.  Religion cannot be proven.  There
is evidence to suggest that life elsewhere does exist.  There is
no evidence to suggest that anything in religion is true.  These
two items are polar opposites.

Someone who believes in ET's without proof is guilty of faulty logic,
just like someone who believes in a god without any evidence.  But
someone who believes that ET's are possible has not violated any
rules of logic.

-john-

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

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.

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

- David