"Matt Bogen" <mbogen at stagnito.com> writes: > Seems to me that humans, no matter where they have evolved, have worshipped > something - whether animist spirits, ancestors, or creating a polytheist or > monotheist system. Humans want some explanation for what's out there, > something beyond our immediate tactile knowledge. And no matter how far out > in space humans go, these influences will follow - whether individual > characters believe them or not - because they are human. Alien races have > their own problems to deal with. :) But eventually we will learn to look for our explanations in ways more likely to produce the truth. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info