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"The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universe, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd...

The saying you mention is the third of Clarke's Three Laws. Here are all three ... Phoning home?

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering." -Arthur C. Clarke

The Mathematics of God "And God said, let there be numbers, and there were numbers; odd and even created he them, and he said unto them, be fruitful and multiply; and he commanded them to keep the laws of induction." -Edward Nelson (Department of Mathematics, Princeton)

New Element Discovered The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by University physicists here. The element, tentatively named administratium (Ad), has no protons or electrons, which means that it has atomic number 0 and falls outside the natural patterns exhibited by other...

Homo blennus "There is nothing in the world that can give a man a sense of the infinite like human stupidity." -Unknown

"What really interests me is whether God could have created the world any differently; in other words, whether the demand for logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all." -Albert Einstein

I thought these links might be of interest ... Arguments for the Existence of God Is a Proof of the Non-Existence of a God Even Possible?

Schopenhauer on Suicide "As far as I can see, it is only the monotheistic, that is to say Jewish, religions whose members regard self-destruction as a crime. This is all the more striking in that neither in the Old nor in the New Testament is there to be found any prohibition or even...

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -Philip K. Dick

The Dark Sucker Theory For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light, but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers. The Dark Sucker Theory and the existence of dark suckers prove that dark...

I think that depends. Does the universe have consciousness?

To be or not to be ... "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." -Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus

Who are you making this justification to - yourself or others?

Message to the Moon About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in...