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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

RE: You asked for it!!

You have to define life.

Is it likely that there is something organic scooting around in some medium somewhere? Undoubtedly so. God obviously cherishes life, so I would expect it to be abundant throughout his creation.

Is it likely that there are other sentient or semi-sentient creatures in the universe? Probably so. Once again, creation is obviously a delight to God, so I can't imagine he would limit his creative powers to one little dust mote.

Do they look like us? Probably. I think other creatures God created that have reached the level of mankind would necessarily resemble us. After all, he did create us in his own image, did he not? I think that also means that life on our level is limited to a very few places in the universe. I think God, in his wisdom, has kept us well separated until we are mature and intelligent enough to deal with one another rationally, reasonably, and peacefully. In other words, I don't expect to meet any of these other people in my lifetime. We can't even coexist well on our own little dustball, we could hardly be trusted to interact with any of God's other creations.

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