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[David Stockhoff]

Possibly. That seems a bit literal to me.

One could go further and speculate that such a universe is the one we 
would experience, because we would create it ... because that is what we 
perceive, being creatures of superstition with no higher wisdom to guide 
us. At best, we'd be dupes in someone else's idea of progress, even if 
it helps us in the long run.

On 12/16/2010 12:46 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> That's really the crux (heh) of it, for me.  The Sun series is all about what the universe would
> be like with no Christ. Answer- We'd really have pagan gods ruling us, vampires among us, foul,
> predatory monsters in the oceans, ghouls and human sacrifice and a lot of other nasty stuff that
> we Earthlings, blessedly, (mostly) only have in legends.


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