Kiteman has left the building! Apart from rare visits to check up on known YECs and anti-science fundies, I have abandoned the BBC fora because of the BBCs betrayal of the basic tenets of science and abandonment of their founding requirement to educate. It is a sad thing to see "meeja studies" morons reduce a once-mighty broadcaster to tabloid status in the name of progress. RIP BBC Science.

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Credo

Faith, noun; Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.

Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain

Science, noun; Set of processes that explain the universe and its contents through hypotheses and theories based on observable evidence.

I am in the universe, a part of the universe. I was not created, I am the most recent product of several billion years' worth of random mutation selected by environmental and sexual pressures, plus a healthy dose of accidents.

I am a unique individual, with my own mind, knowledge, skills, dreams. I am a husband, father, son and friend. I teach others and learn from others.

No god had a part in my genesis. I have no religious faith, although I respect those that do. I take responsibility for my own actions, and bear the guilt for any wrong-doings without feeling the need to confess them to a higher being. When I die, all that will remain of me will be the memories held by those that knew me. I will go to neither heaven nor hell, nor will I be resurrected. When I am gone, I am gone.

To quote the famous philosophers; "Cogito ergo sum" and "I yam what I yam!".

Those who can make you belive absurdities can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire.