Hi to everybody. Most of you already know me, but let me introduce myself for the others.
I'm from Italy, working as researcher in mathematical physics and personally not believing in god for a number of resons I prefer not to enter here...
My intersests run from fundamental physics and general relativity to mathematics. I'm also interested in biology and geology, though not an expert in that.
Personally I'm not very interested in religion. So you might ask which are the reasons for me to be here?
Well first I'm curious to understand how someone can believe that science supports some absurdities (the man popping out of nothing instead of evolving from apes, the Earth to be around for much less than 4BY, the flood to be a real event-local or global is not much difference-, God living in the extra dimensions of strings).
Second, I like to discuss and sometimes I learn something new (it happened many times in the last 2 years!)
Third, I'm sincerely interested in anthropology... I'd like to undestand, of some guys on board, when they lie consciously or when they simply repeat arguments they don't understand.
I personally don't feel obliged to convince anyone that (s)he is wrong.
As I said many times everybody is free to believe what (s)he wishes.
However, personal freedom is considerably reduced when we discuss about what science claims. I mean I wish I could run 100 meters in 5 secs, but just I cannot. World is unfair, but just in the same way I don't mind if one believes that god exists, provided that one doesn't claim that science unambiguisly supports that it created men out of dust.
My favourite quotation is
We are travelling through the woods,
with everything we have learned and
with our weak intuition always wishing
we are smarter.
It would be a discouraging state of confusion
and we would feel lost
if it wasn't that the trip is wonderful
and the landscape so breathtaking.
Guess who is the author?
PS I was away in the last few weeks. Be patient and I'll reply to the threads left on the old board.
If this doesn't happend in the next week, just let me know and I'll reply.