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"There are some religions, or people within religions, that don't bother with trying to extrapolate where we came from (genesis, evolution) or where we're 'going', they just concentrate on putting a philosophy into practice here and now."

That'll be a big proportion of the congregation and clergy of the Church of England then! I'm sure a lot of them find all this supernatural stuff a bit of an embarrassment and would be much more comfortable just sticking with Love thy Neighbour. Let's face it, for all but the less educated, Darwin screwed the message up forever and the church has never managed to put it together adequately, even to their own satisfaction. You can tell - even people as clever as bishops tend to squirm under close questioning.

Indeed. And it's fair to say that there are some religious folk that are actually LESS flaky in their assertions about 'truth' than some supposedly 'scientific' types.

Give me R.A.Wilson's 'maybe' logic anyday. It might seem like a fence-sitters philosophy to the impatient, but it's irrefutable in it's ambivalence.