I can correlate a lot of the things you say here. You really do think very closely along the lines that I do. Except, it seems, we were born in different environments; funny that we two should find each other like this.
It's nice to know that there is someone who thinks similarly.

(despite us reaching different conclusions) Great minds think alike, as the saying goes.

I guess I cannot argue that any of your points are wrong. To do so is similar to arguing with the existence of the fabric of space... if you prove it wrong, then you prove your very existence wrong. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? It gets so fine that it almost becomes trivial. All I can relate to you is my life experience and that through Christianity, through having a personal relationship with Jesus, I now am certain that I will be going to Heaven; my future is sealed.
I guess we all find happiness in our own way.

Hah! What's funny, is that I have many Indian friends myself, and when they describe what it's like to return to their homeland, they all say the same thing - there's absolutely nothing to do. They all just seemed to sit around in the heat and either breathe, think and read. But eventually they run out of books, so it just turns into breathing and thinking.
LOL, it seems that they had the same experience as I always do there; breathing and thinking is about all there is to.

The last time I went there it wasn't as bad since my dad brought his laptop along - I spent most of the time playing whatever games worked on that

- but it was still pretty boring, as there was no 3D card and FS2 therefore wouldn't work on it. So it still turned into a lot of breathing and thinking.

(and swatting mosquitoes, which are all over the place

)
You know scientific probability says that ice should not float. But it does and if it did not float your basis for live couldn't survive. Probability of a molecular compound like water forming in the universe is around 1:1,000,000,000 which is
smaller chance than winning the lottery. Life's probability is infintecimal which means it cannot be calculated.
Actually ice floats because of its higher surface area and tensile strength. (although as Setekh said, water is a fairly unusual compound

) The probability of a molecular compund (actually a compound other than hydrogen or helium, which are very common) forming in space is very small, but the thing is that the particles came into contact with each other so many times, that the vastness of that number cancelled out the small probability and made the amount of matter fairly abundant. The same can be said for the creation of intelligent life; the probability is very small (but still finite, because if it was infinitely small it would equal zero according to math), but the procedure was carried out so many times by the interactions of particles that it resulted in the forming of at least one species of intelligent life.

So, do you think Jesus, as a person - son of Joseph and Mary - existed, physically?
Sure, I am pretty certain that there was a man named Jesus Christ around that time. He was probably the creator of the religion and had a large following that lasted after his death; anything that fits in with current scientific facts is easy to accept for me.
