From: "Damien Sullivan" <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> > Right, there's more to the science/religion debate than God. Science has to > bail out on the First Cause (not that anyone else has anything concrete to say > about it) but can be pretty darn confident IMNSHO about their being no room or > need for a soul. Well, maybe I'm projecting here, but it does seem this way > to me. two quibbles: "...bail out on the first cause, so far,..." and i'd replace "no room or need" with "no evidence." > OTOH, Steve, I think your insistence about Buddhism revering superhuman powers > was a bit confusing. Supernatural elements, yeah, and as I said a lot of > powers where Buddhism has usually been practised, but people over here > probably usually don't think in terms of hells and demons and flying Wu Don > masters... but they do believe in reincarnation? what then does buddhism posit, if anything, as the origin of this supernatural process of transplantation of memories and/or personality? or do they bail on first cause arguments, too? chris cunningham, np: grateful dead "black peter"