No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet and believe it with all their hearts. And yet, at the moment, Iraq doesn't trust Iran worth a damn, and Iran trusts Iraq even less than that. In fact, Iran is convinced that Iraq is in the pay of the Great Satan (that's God-fearing America, in case you've forgotten) and Iraq counters with the accusation that it is Iran who is in the pay of the Great Satan. Neither side is accusing the Godless Soviets of anything, which is a puzzle

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind