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Old 04-08-2003, 04:00 PM   #21
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Humanity's first purpose is to see it it's own survival.
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Old 04-08-2003, 04:04 PM   #22
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Lack of evidence doesn't make it a fact. And we can't prove all NDE's where people see a spiritual world are false.

And lack of evidence also isn't proof.
Nope. But we do have evidence that the earth exists and people live on it. Should we abandon the one home we know for sure we have because some people speculate we might get another one?
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That's just my perception, DD. The drive to survive would appear to be a basic one, at least it seems to be with most animal life on this planet. I'm open to being wrong but that's not the overall point of my post in general.
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