It should be kept in mind that the establishment clause didn't stop various states from literally having established churches for decades afterwards.

How is this show still on the air? I watched the first few episodes back when it came out and it was starting to feel tired by the time I bailed already….

Come to think of it, does he plan to hang out with Mcafee and become best friends with him to study for the role?

Either should work!

When you rephrase it like that it makes sense.

You say that - but you just know Lost Highway season 7 will be amazing.

As I recall he was mostly turned off by the Ewoks and the toys. I seem to recall that they made him ill.

Actually it was a short story.

He should have made it instead of Dune.

Is that how Twin Peaks stopped being "deader than a doorknob"?

I can only think of Independence Day?

But it will work on yourself…

I'm not sure the Empire causing a protracted eclipse or causing lunar style tides would really strike sufficient terror into recalcitrant worlds.

Tri-breasted hookers are the bane of any colonization effort.

That isn't really the religious argument. The religious argument is that Earth and specifically man are intrinsically special.

Like our world.

Do those types of tree and turtle that have long lives not evolve?

And given that that helped him get closer to tenure, wasn't it all worth it?

That is making an assumption about how far away they are. It's not impossible that the solar system next door may be the one with an advanced race - and perhaps the other close by solar systems don't have the water they want? Or the coal.

Hard to say what they'd want.