Atheist Father To Son: "Son, life is a swirling eddy of despair, lit briefly by false hopes and shattered dreams, and ending in eternal oblivious..."
Son: "I guess that means I won't be getting the 10-speed I want for my birthday?"

ODE TO MS. MADELINE O' HAIR What is she really after? An atheism free of Laughter? Why not accept... "In God We Trust," And use those bills to buy Nietzsche's Bust!

DOGMA
It is abundantly evident that belief in God is often destructively dogmatic. Is the problem then that humans tend to believe in God, or is the problem that humans tend to be dogmatic? Anyone who has known a died-in-the-wool atheist will know that such an individual can be as dogmatic about unbelief as any believer can be about belief. Is it belief in God we need to get rid of, or is it dogmatism?
--M. Scott Peck, from The Road Less Traveled

Four Major Views On How God Interacts With The Universe!

1. God does not play dice with the Universe
   -- Albert Einstein's View
2. God does play dice with the Universe; He even throws them where they cannot be seen, and randomly switches dots on each die after it stops rolling.
   --Quantum Mechanical View
3. God plays dice with the universe rather well. In fact, he's probably a professional gambler.
   -- Theistic Evolution's View.
4. God does not play dict with the Universe. He play darts with it.
   -- John Slader's View (He's a prominent Sci-Fi Writer).

WHAT IS EVOLUTION?

Herbert Spencer, a contemporary of Darwin, defined evolution as "an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity."

However, William James. the famous Harvard psychologist, remained unimpressed, and chose to delight his students with the mocking parody, "Evolution is a change from a nohowish untalkaboutable all-alikeness to a somehowish and in general talkaboutable not-all-alikeness by continuous sticktogetherations and something elseifications."

The Wrong Word
We were talking of the Universe at tea, and one of our company declared that he at least was entirely without illusions. He had long since faced the fact that Nature had no sympathy with our hopes and fears, and was icily indifferent to our fate. The Universe, he said, was a great meaningless machine; Man, with his reason and moral judgements, was the product of blind forces, which, though they would so soon destroy him, he must yet despise. To endure this tragedy of our fate with passionless despair, never to wince or bow the head, to confront the hostile powers with high disdain, to fix with eyes of scorn the Gorgon face of Destiny, to stand on the brink of the abyss, clenching his fist at the death-pale stars-this, he said, was his attitude, and it produced as you can imagine, a powerful impression on the company. As for me, I was carried away completely.

'By Jove, that is a stunt!' I cried.

From ALL TRIVIA by Logan Pearsall Smith, ©1945 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; renewed 1973 by John Russell. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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