I wonder just how many military guises the Boeing 707 has had?

and the DC-3!

Other frequent Lossiemouth & Kinloss visitors in the 1970s & 1980s – US Army C-12C Huron 73-22255, based on the Beechcraft Super King Air…

USAF C-12 Huron 73-1211, which crashed killing 5 occupants in Iran 31.01.79…

and US Army U-21A Ute 18091 (now N7112T) based on the Beechcraft A90 King Air

Here we have Brown, Cameron and Clegg as the centerpieces of ‘British’ politics, and typically no mention of the SNP, the governing party of an entire nation north of the border, whose constituents will be voting in the election.
Disregarded as usual – no wonder more and more Scots want a divorce from the UK!

According to this article ( all right, I know it’s the Daily Mail ) , humans actually have a part of the brain that pre-disposes them to believe in ” something “. Possibly that part’s more developed in some people than others.

The whole point of the article is that the urge to ‘believe’ is primordial – something deep from our evolutionary past. Perhaps we will evolve a little more to cast off that emotional crutch altogether.
Christianity is simply another in a long line of primitive superstitions – just a more streamlined progression from having a cumbersome plethora of different Gods for every occasion.
Maybe it’s my pagan Pictish heritage, but the idea of worshipping sun, fire and water Gods seems slightly less ridiculous to me – at least I know that I would surely die without them…

But because God is not behaving as we think a God should, does not prove that he is not there.

If God doesn’t behave like we think he should, why on earth would you have him around? It’s a bit like asking Ted Bundy to look after your little sister…

Al, thanks for the pic, what was the Constellation used for? Looks like a SIGINT or command post? Any details as to what kind of equipment was housed in those fairings?

141292 has seen better days – a sad end to an awesome aircraft.
VAQ-33 was tactical electronic warfare squadron – there is an account of this aircraft’s 150+ antenna here:
http://www.reenactor.net/vaq-33/connie.html

If evidence is what you want, the preponderance is definitely in God’s favor.
Do you really think that all the beauty around in nature came from some ooze, that came from some big bang, that came from something else? Do you see proof of Evolution taking place around you?
Ryan

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – something is beautiful only because our evolved brains considerate it to be beautiful. A dog could walk past the Mona Lisa every day for a million years, and never see anything other than something else to **** on. Even pond slime is beautiful to some people.
Of course there is obvious proof of Darwin’s theories of evolution and survival of the fittest – it works by genetic mutation and multiplication.
Take the African elephant, and the Scottish wildcat for instance. Big game hunters and Victorian taxidermists wanted the very biggest specimens possible of both these species, and killed so many that the ‘big’ gene was entirely eradicated from the gene pool. As a result, the largest elephant tusks are less than half the length and weight they were 150 years ago, and similarly wildcats four feet long were common 150 years ago, whereas the modern wildcat is considered large at 30 inches long.
These were caused by human interaction of course, but mother nature can cause similar genetic crises. I wonder just how many scientists believe that the ‘heavens and the earth’ were created in six days?

it’s inconceivable to me that something as complex as the human soul doesn’t survive in some way.

Just because we’ve evolved enough to be able to think we are complex, doesn’t mean we are!