Originally Posted by Comicsartist

Did you ever notice this passage in Genesis 2:22?

I think (with a nod to Santa's "I believe=I think" thread) this passage gives room to anything, really. I refer once again to Norse religion and Greek religion. Pre Ragnarok, there are many gods and goddesses. Post Ragnarok, there is one great God almighty. Pre Twilight of the Gods, there are many gods and goddesses. Post Twilight of the Gods, there is one Zeus Almighty. When you think about it, the Bible is a collection of tales. Tales that were passed down through oral traditions, sometimes written traditions. The tales originated somewhere. And when you look at the sum total of the religions of the world, they most often parallel each other in many ways. Might have different names for certain things, but a connecting line can be made.

Point being, if there are perhaps hundreds of religions in the world-each one explaining things in their own terms, each one reflecting off another-wouldn't that make the idea of a God more plausible?

I realize I've gone off topic a bit, but your ideas enter in, too, Porcupine. To believe in the highly improbable, is to believe in the highly improbable. Just because something might be out of the human mind's grasp doesn't mean it can't be true. Science might try to disprove something, but (and I have been criticized for saying this before) science is also a man made thing. Science wasn't here just waiting to be found, someone had to come up with the idea of science before it came to be. Granted, it is a system based on peer review, experimentation, and repeat results, but it is still worked out with the human mind. 10% brain usage? What does the other 90% hold? We are human. We are limited. Our knowledge is not endless, our results are not always perfect. There will always be something science cannot explain. Are the thousands upon thousands of people who believe they have seen a ghost wrong? I mean are all of them wrong? Is there no possible way for life to exist beyond death? Is there no possible way for a being with greater faculties than us to exist? Which came first, Hercules or Herculaneum?

What if the folktales are right?