I hope this goes thru the hierachy correctly because I have seperate responses
to post. If it does not, please bear with my outdated NG reader;
Rich said;
The first statement is untrue.
In response to;
The only thing which cannot be proven is that something does not exist.
My response follows;
<u>Any</u> source of information, be it a he, she or it, to unequivocably claim
that something absolutely doesn't exist must have been to the edges of the
universe, and seen everything and have infallible recall.
For example unicorns. Now I'm not going to put forth a theory like an old Star
Trek, parallel development is crap. It makes for a good story, but it's crap.
How did the Iotians read that book about the Chicago gangs ? No way.
However, it's not unreasonable to think that there are quite a few planets out
there with an enviroment like our own. Therefore it would not be unreasonable
to think that life would develop in a similar way. Therefore a beast, just like
a horse could develop but with a horny bone thing protruding out of the top of
his head. If you saw one, well, what then ? Also, modern horses evolved from
something else just like every form of life on the planet. Perhaps one of the
rarer forms had a horn, like a rhino or a deer, things that ARE on this planet.
Elephant's tusks would be another example.
Horse type creatures are not all that good at feeding themselves. They can do
it but they have no real offensive weapons, maybe that's why they took so well
to domestication. A horse with say, a 12" pointy projectile might be a bit more
formidable, or deemed more formidable by the men who were to train them so they
got rid of them and they went off and starved in the wilderness.
Which brings me to this, if anyone wants to say "never happen" they need to
know the entire history of the universe. Never means never, "it'll never
happen" is a different story. I'll keep an open mind, but I would really like
to see the method by which anyone can prove that something does not exist.
Additionally, I'd like to see how anyone can prove something never existed, and
even more fun, that something will never exist, but let's deal with the present
right now.
Get that done and we'll move on to future and past.
JURB