Recent content by Macroscopist

Something that is very unlikely to exist.

What if you run across someone says they have seen God? I know someone like this, and I don't believe he's being allegorical. He really believes he has seen God, and he cannot be convinced otherwise.

Depending of the structure of the comment/ criticism, I agree. People with strong biases of a controversial nature rarely respond well because they see it as a direct attack on themselves and their "core values".

If one looks at religion in general, it appears to me they develop in an almost evolutionary way, driven by chance events and the peculiar characteristics of the human mind. Chance events happen all the time, and can be interpreted in many ways by people experiencing them. In the past, when the...

I am a retired research scientist, actually a research microscopist, who spent over thirty years delving into the very small to find answers to medical problems and/or just understand how things work. I enjoyed my work but nearly everyone reaches a point where they wish to do something else...