[Sailor Steve]

My path closely parallels that of Armistead, from believer to questioning believer to believing questioner to just asking questions, and seeing fewer and fewer answers until I finally see no answers at all. I'm not an atheist, since I don't discount the possibility of a Supreme Creator, but I'm also not an agostic, since that implies by definition the belief that we can never know whether there's a God or not. The most I can assert is that I don't know, and no one has been able to show me that his belief is justified by anything more than his belief. Unlike the assertions of some others, I don't consider myself spiritual at all.

I also agree with Armistead about the question of other life in the universe. If it's arrogant to assert we are alone, it is also unscientific to assert that we are not. I don't discount it, but I also will withold believing we aren't alone until I see some real evidence. Until then, as always, I don't know.