That is a fairly sensible approach to life. I will add a few more points to the discussion then, I will get down off this 'soap box' for its getting a bit shaky. If you were to judge an iceberg by what you can see of it, there would be two thirds or more, of it, which you couldn't see. In a sense, this is what hppens when science applies its traditional yardstick (empirical knowledge) to the study of the Universe. This limits all findings to what can be sensed by one of more of our five senses ie. seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling. This a mistake, because each of the five senses is limited to a certain scale of sensitivity. The human ear can only hear sound vibrations within a certain range, which varies a little between individuals; at the upper end, animals can hear higher pitched (more vibrations per second) sound than humans. At the low end, these vibrations descend to point where they no longer manifest as sound, but as movement. Were any of you at a Night Club or disco, where the monster sized amplification and bass speakers, were pumping out sound, which at the low end, was already shaking the floor of the establishment. So, with all the physical senses, they are not capable of sensing the full scale of the penomena which they are testing. Within the human body their are certain glands, which when fully developed and functioning, give us the ability to reach beyond the physical range of phenomena. In other words, the greater part of the Universe or, (a better word I think) lies outside the realm of our five physical sensesns. The Next Frontier is the Metaphysical - beyond the physical. There is hope though, there are a lot of scientists and physicists on the case. The Eartn is a living planet, which sustains a certain form of life, but the probality of other planets sustaining different forms of life is very real.
Anyhow, enjoy the party, but don't destroy our beautiful planet.

Five senses - I think if all species have around five senses then that would support evolution because why wouldn't a creator create some species with 20 or 30 senses? Wouldn't that be logical if creatism was true. Also if creatism was true, why are so many animals so simular. And who created the creator? We know if evolution was true that 2 gas balls created the universe but we don't know the equivelent story for creatism (such as how time began).
Just a bunch of questions to add to help support evolution and to talk about.

fish, and birds, 'see' magnetism
may or may not be that our senses can't detect the senses that other creatures may or may not be using.
Ghosts,
If ghosts existed there would be standing room only for ghosts only, billenia of ghosts would be stacked on top of each other, hominid ghosts, erectus ghosts, cromagnon ghosts, ghosts of every religion, ghosts in every location.
ghosts persist in the folk tales of every society even those uncontaminated by contact with any other, and behave(if existing) in similar fashion in all tales.
there are occurrences that arent adequately explained by physical laws as we know them. shamen, healers,
there are fake TV evangelists, who if god(s) existed would be burned to a crispy critter by lightning in the middle of the broadcast, by the tenets of the religion they preach.
What happens to elder gods, do they retire after a few years, out of boredom.
baal aten mars odin jupiter, had a pretty good thing going, but now?
and why three religions all worshipping the same god, spend so much time killing 'for my god' the others.

what do(es) god(s) get out of worship
If omnipotent omniscient what benefit do you get

I was wondering when this would turn into a god thread...

a thread titled Do you Believe in evolution has to be a 'god thread' somewhere in its passage
I don't think that evolution and intelligent creation are exclusive of each other
Big Bang, could be an appropriate appelation for a godhead
and
There is nothing to suggest that a deity of some stripe didnt just decide to start the ball rolling and leave it go. resulting in the current crop of mutations, thats the other part of omnipotence, big bang, is a party trick

or that existence wasnt just sneezed out of the nose of the great green arkelseizure

Actually I started this thread as a spoof on the theory of evolution, not intended to be a serious discussion of anything. If you watched the utube video I posted you would have seen that.

Maybe we can out with humor

It does not have to be a argument over God, which turns into a flame war, like this infamous thread. Although with Josh no longer here maybe a thread like that would not be 145 pages of insults.

Well how exactly does evolution conflict with religion? It only goes as far as a common ancestry and we know that god is long gone so doesn't it kinda fit in with religion. Because maybe from a religious point of view, god made the first set of species then the god passed away a few million years later and the species then continued to develope using the evolution thory. So unless you believe god is still alive today then I don't see how evolution conflicts with religion.

Looks like they took the original link down. However, post # 2 in this thread has the full episode.

What happened to that guy anyway? He kept getting banned and unbanned, then it seemed like he lasted for exactly one day in his last unbanning before getting banned again.