Yeah - I was raised Methodist and went through a lot of
religious questing, ending up Eastern Orthodox (ALMOST became
Catholic tho, just before it) - and there was never a time I
didn't trust that Science was more or less on the right path
with enough of it. I"m agnostic now but I like to keep my ears
open on all sides always a little skeptical but always
listening. I give a harsher criticism to the Sciences because of
Scientism becoming the up-and-coming predominant religion of the
near future... and if a lot of humanity is going to be led by
Scientists that _don't_ know how to lead people? Well, they'd
better get things right. I'm not much of a fan of Scientism as
it stands now though. It's a religion in a very primitive state.
== Oh ancient alien stuff. I was into that as a teenager for a
little bit. I reconciled a lot of my Sunday school stuff with my
love of Sci-Fi, so I just imagined God-as-alien at the time and
tried to fit the bible stories into it. Worked pretty well. Was
fun. == It can be as old as the Universe, if we expand our
definition of life. As it stands, basing life upon things that
resemble humans in SOME way, about 3.5 billion years. and, so
far, no evidence of our kind of life on other planets. Might
change. Who knows. == Well, when I say sci-fi I mean "sci". The
only sci-fi I consider legit is hard science fiction.
Theoretical physics is hard sci fi to me, for example paid for
by Universities. Well, not particle physics. That's good science
there. But the probability stuff? eh, I take with a grain of
salt. Maybe, maybe not. why? 'cause statistically, I don't
exist. But I'm here. == Oh I like Dubstep. I like how it got
incorporated into mainstream music, especially the rising tone,
the bass drop (usually with a couple of memorable words) and
then the craziness. My favorite pattern of newer music. = I hope
so. My hope is this: We'll broaden our definition of life. Right
now, it's limited to peculiar conditions here and it's somewhat
arbitrary. I think as time goes on, the line between
life/not-life is going to have to get fuzzier and fuzzier. Then
we'll see more life. ==
