"As a statement about the universe I am agnostic, in the sense that God's existence or nonexistence is neither provable nor disprovable. As a statement about my personal beliefs and habits, I am a nontheist. I assume and act as if there is no God. Based on this place me where you will."
Reminds me of the bicycle in 'Butch Cassidy' which I used to find so anachronistic, but I guess it was not. They did have bikes then, and I suppose the bike in the movie symbolized the coming future, and the end of the old west bank robber days.
I was in Grafton, Utah, last month at the ghost town where they filmed that scene, although I didn't recognize it. Or maybe I recognized it subliminally because I re-watched 'Buth Cassidy' and when I did, I said, "Hey! That's Grafton!"
Of one of my ancestors, "It was an old saying that he had sixty feet of daughters, for of his eleven children ten were girls, all whom were uncommonly tall."
"As a statement about the universe I am agnostic, in the sense that God's existence or nonexistence is neither provable nor disprovable. As a statement about my personal beliefs and habits, I am a nontheist. I assume and act as if there is no God. Based on this place me where you will."
-- Michael Shermer
http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Michael_Shermer
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/15/my-daguerreotype-boyfriend/#!it2vS
I was in Grafton, Utah, last month at the ghost town where they filmed that scene, although I didn't recognize it. Or maybe I recognized it subliminally because I re-watched 'Buth Cassidy' and when I did, I said, "Hey! That's Grafton!"
http://murraycamber10.homestead.com/Jenks.html