4/25/07 Earth-like planet

Look at the progress we've made as a human race in just the last 100 years. What advancements will we achieve in the next century ? We WILL discover remarkable things about life itself and our purpose for existence. I'm just glad to be living now and not some other time in history. As far back as our history books go, you can see a natural human pattern throughout time of wanting organization and proper order, enlightenment, ... etc. We have this constant wanting to seek, discover and expand our minds. One can see how things have morphed into the civilization we are today... I honestly feel like the world is not a shity place, it's a freakin miracle that we even exist, whether you base our existance on pure science or the notion of an all mighty creator AKA the Great Machine or God. I personally attest to the latter for many reasons but a big one for me is that Einstein himself said that the more he studied the universe, the more he was certan that there was in fact some sort of God, a creator of all things.

Wow, I've never really investigated the above quote but it seems that Einstein had more of a "guilty until proved innocent" mentality when it came to organized religion. He said "if people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. " (Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955