Dear Diploman,

You are correct. I am a stirrer. I am an expatriate American living in Australia. The separation between church and state is under threat in my home country although it is still illegal for tax money to go to support a religious school. I was taken aback to find tax money in Australia went to support religious schools and further shocked by the school chaplaincy program.

I think the US has a higher percentage of religious people than Australia has. Separation of church and state is beneficial for both church and state. It gives the church greater freedom to act as the conscience of the state since it owes the state nothing. It gives the state greater freedom to act for the benefit of all Australians since it is not under obligation to any sect or belief.

Creationist are right. God was created by man in the dark dark ages because many issues could not be explained at the time. Science now proves the reasons why these events happened which religious fables explained were miracles. Ignorance at that time considered an asteroid hitting the earth was an act of god, sush is the story of sodom and gomorrah. EVE (Women) were created from the rib of Adam. Inhabitants did not understand Thunder and Lightning, Eruption of Volcanoes, An Earthquake, A Tsunami so they made up their own stories.
We may still be superstitious today by not walking under ladders but we are now intelligent enough not to believe in Witches, Father Christmas, and fairies at the bottom of the garden. Unfortunately many people are fooled by the Pope,, and pray for the world to be a better place. Then they go out and vote for Blair, Bush and Howard so that they can exterminate innocent people with agent orange, depleted uranium, cluster bombs, While people believe in religioun they will never ever learn.

Bronco! It looks like commsence is a gift after all. Well done.

Commonsense! Evolution! Please use your spell-check. You idiot. lol

Evolution Commonsense, At School I was top of the class in Religous Education and Spelling. Sincerely believed stronger than Boazy. My Headmaster asked me do you believe in god ? What a silly question everybody does the whole school does in assembly. He said well done please take my advice in the library there are three other books other than the Bible. He wrote them down "Iron Heel" Author Jack London. "Ragged Trousered Philanthropist" Robert Tressell and "The German Ideology" Marx and Engels. After reading them it was like giving up smoking Evolution just put it down to a typing error it covers a mulitude of sins.

Just make sure you keep your workshop clean, and dont forget, that life is what you make it.

Funny old world.