Of course it's true. Haven't you seen Star Wars or Say It Ain't So? This happens more often than you think, probably every day. In every country.

Of course the placebo effect works for some people Ernie. Which is why I've always argued that we should be able to prescribe sugar pills - which do as well as homeopathy in clinical trials. But apparently that's UNETHICAL. I recently wrote as thorough a take-down of homeopathy as I could, but as it's not online, could all supporters of homeopathy please read one of Ben Goldacre's recent offerings on the subject?

http://www.badscience.net/?p=577
http://www.badscience.net/?p=578

He's a better writer than me anyway.

In Pitch Black the Muslim character mentioned preying towards 'New Mecca'.

Edgore you are spot on with "I don't understand this flexibility - either God said "You have to do things this way" or he didn't"

Precisely the point that undermines so much in religion. Doctor friends say that they ARE allowed to eat during the day in Ramadan if means their patients will suffer if they don't. An admission that the practice is inadvisable, so there are exceptions. Likewise with space, the reason all these quandries occur is that whoever wrote these holy books wasn't God, cos surely God would've realised we'd get into space one day and put a clause in about that?

My Mum gave me a little globe when I was three. I loved it.

Now I realise that f*cking b!tch wasn't thinking about feeding me, she was titting around wasting brain power on knowing the shape of the Earth. I am now filing for parental divorce.