Um... This isn't a profound rebuttal or anything, and I think it may have been mentioned earlier in the thread, but the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence (I mean, that's one of the oldest [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance]arguments[/url] in the book).

If you're going to make a statement like that, you have to at the very least be more descriptive and less absolute, such as "it is highly unlikely to exist, due to a distinct lack of verified experimental evidence," not "no evidence=does not exist". Also, perhaps best is "due to the lack of verified experimental evidence, I do not [i]believe[/i] such an entity exists, and will not until evidence is given".

What So Boerd is trying to say, I believe, is that our perceptions color what we know and what we believe, and especially that those perceptions are limited. There is a high probability that there is a human being behind my words, but there [i]isn't any evidence[/i] that I'm not some other type of intelligence, such as an AI or an alien, or indeed, a deity. I could even be a person or intelligence from a different dimension, or one of your past lives, or a cat. You have no way to know, unless you follow my IP address to my house and watch me type the words into the computer. And even then, who's to say I'm not a hallucination? Absolutes are impossible, Brovo. We just have to have a good idea. It's likely that I am none of those things. I don't believe I am. But I'm not sure.

Without someone telling you that the world is round, Brovo, would you be likely to deduce or calculate its roundness in your lifetime? If you never left a windowless, doorless room and no one else ever entered, could you ever be sure there was anything beyond it? If you've never had reason to believe in higher powers, deities or cosmic intelligences... Why would you?

EDIT: Anyway, it's not even true. You can find evidence of cosmic intelligence in anything, if you look hard enough... I mean, what about math? Did it just... happen? Is math different in other dimensions? [i]Are[/i] there any other dimensions? Is there truly any past or future? What [i]is[/i] time, and why does it exist? Where in the name of Science did Fibbonaci numbers come from?!