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Out of interest Mike; please point me in the direction of a dictionary
that
considers the conditional "may well be" (words carefully chosen in my
original post) to carry the same meaning as "believe there are"?

;-)

"may well inhabit" was your statement, not "may well be". The
implication
being that they exist, but you were in some doubt concerning their
location. ;-)

Of course not Mike, "may" implies a conditional state, period, it's that
simple.

There "may well be" life on other planets, life "may well inhabit" other
planets, means precisely the same thing, and in no sense whatsoever, in
English, does it suggest doubt as to location rather than the existence of
life in the first place.

OK. I accept that.

I would point out, too, that I have no quarrel with your statement -
there's nothing in Christian understanding that denies intelligent life
elsewhere. (CS Lewis wrote an interesting Sci-Fi book - "Perelandra" -
on
the concept of an unfallen world.)

However, I don't think there is that much difference - but I'll grant
you
an amendment to my comment - to "believe there may be".
I think my point is valid, as it was the *type* of thinking on which I
was
commenting, rather than the firmness of your fai^H^H^Hbelief.

Sorry no. It means precisely as I described above, and the degree and
subject of that conditionality was made perfectly clear in the original
statement.

Ny point is still that you are prepared to accept a 'may well be' life
elsewhere but not that there might be a creator God.

You will not find a post from me, recently or in the archives, that states
that there is no god. In fact you'll be pushed to find a post from any
atheist that categorically denies the possibility (apart from {R} ;-).
Rewording this, I accept the possibility that there is a god. So if that was
your point, it seems that we've just had a wasted debate!

However I would be somewhere around a 2- on the previous scale, ie

1 There is definitely no god
2 There is a slim chance of a god
3 There may be a god.
4 There is a distinct likelihood of a god
5 There is a god

pga
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