and was able to translate simple passages. I felt that my `understanding` was increasing and that I could decipher more `meaning` in German text. Finally, by now, I am quite comfortable in effortlessly speaking and translating the language, which is very `meaningful` to me. My point is, has anything else happened during this process other than my increasing ability to ( unconsciously ) process symbols ( syntax )? It certainly feels as though I have also mastered this thing called `meaning`, but isn`t that just a feeling which accompanies my new found facility in processing the syntax effortlessly? A Monotheist : 23 Apr 2012 1:57:39pm Hello Everyone: I think it would have been more interesting if some bad scientific arguments had been also included. I think if you take the tags such as experiments or observation from any scientific argument, there'll be no good sceintific argument at all. But even then, the most dazzaling scientific arguments appears to me to be deeply flawed. Consider, for an example, the Big Bang and the evolutionary theories which lead people such as Richard Dawkins to argue aginst God's existence. According to the Big Bang theory, once a upon a time, the universe had been as small as a billion-trillion-trillion of a centimeter (the Plank size). Then out of it cmes out all the matter and energy which have led the development of all galaxies, stars, whales, dinosaurs, trees, oceans etc. I guess, even your guessts wouldn't have much problem with it. Now, the