You must be a lot younger than me! 
Life expectancy will increase dramatically in the next few decades, reaching 100 years on average by 2030. Around the same time or shortly after it will be discovered that it is possible to end non-accidental deaths and increase the lifespan indefinately through the use of stem cell therapies.
I also believe that in the next 60-70 years there will be breakthroughs in genetic engineering already living creatures, and that a struggle of ethics will wage for several decades. Eventually the struggle will win and humans will alter themselves in ways we of this day and age would find appalling.
Of course no evidence exists, because it hasn’t happened yet. I could though!
Ummm…have ou met my good friend number eleven?
I believe the universe is real.
I believe the universe is deterministic.
I believe that almost all people who believe in god wouldn’t believe in him/her at all if they were not told about him until they reached the age of 21 (or maybe even 8).
I believe that well over 50% of cases of crib death, and maybe more than 95%, are caused by parents smothering their children.
Have you met my good friend, “eleven isn’t even”?
Quite clearly they’re not equal, as they have different members. What specifically did you have in mind?
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Pretend I never wrote that…
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I like the caveat that CAROLYN PORCO gave before she answered the question.
How many times have we heard that atheism is a form of faith?
I’ll also go with her answer. I believe there is life somewhere else in the cosmos. I believe people are basically kind and well-meaning, just often misguided.
I believe in the existence of ghosts though I do not pretend to be able to prove it. I am usually a very rational and skeptical person (most would call me an atheist), and I believe that people like Van Praagh and John Edward and Sylvia Brown, to paraphrase His Divine Grace Cecil, “are to bullshit what Stonehenge is to pebbles”, but I have had experiences that I do not believe were the result of brain chemistry or lighting or consciousness altering substances (which I’ve never used) and experiences that have been exactly replicated by others. I do believe that whatever ghosts are they are ultimately explicable by scientific laws (something to do with time and space, for example- I’ve never believed that the “ghosts” I’ve seen were trying to communicate- it was more like I was seeing something that wasn’t there anymore- some sort of intersection in time), but…
And I believe that I am destined to spend eternity with Jude Law, his insistence on proving his “heterosexuality” notwithstanding (three kids in four years, Jude? That’s just a bit of overkill don’t you think? You’re so in denial— I’m just glad he has the money to pay for Swiss boarding schools for the lot of them).
The world would be a better place if religion never existed.
String theory is always fun to watch mathematicians & astro physicists mull over.
In what turned out to be the meltdown of 2001, I remember posting this Q in GD:
What if:
Our Sol is but one nucleus & the Earth just one electron of
Our solar system being one atom of
Our Milky Way Galaxy being just one molecule and
Our Universe just one brain cell of…a creator.
That makes you and I as insignificant as sub-atomic quarksThe replies from the SDSAB types here that shot down the theory were a great read…even though it was over my head
Along the lines of Sampiro’s belief in ghosts, I believe in Faeries. I have had odd experiences that have reinforced this belief, but because of the subjective nature of the experiences, there is no way for me to prove it to other people. My only defense is that a couple of the mystical sightings were shared with other people.
And yes, I am generally a skeptic in all thing supernatural and religious. But I believe this regardless of knowing what sort of physical, mental or outside influences that may have caused my experiences.
[hijack]Well?! You can’t leave us hanging on something like that![/hijack]
I haven’t seen Van Praagh nor Sylvia Brown, but I believe it is obvious that John Edward is very good at what he does.
Of course what he does is an old-time style mentalist act, not being a medium.
I believe that there actually is a Cecil Adams, and he takes an interest in what goes on in the SDMB.
I believe in all the Protestant Christian stuff.
I believe that things are true simply because I believe in them. (So, “My belief makes it true,” ratther than “I believe because It’s true.”)
I believe that there is no need for me to learn to spell, and have perfect grammer.
I believe that the exact moment that someone becomes drunk enough to black out, that all universal truths are revealed, but since that person blacked out, they don’t remember.
I believe that other minds exist, and that they are fundamently similar to my own.
I believe in God in more than one form.
I believe in Magic. Not pull a rabbit from your hat magic, but real magic. Although I have never seen any.
I think everything in the universe is connected at some level. If we ever figure out how we will be like Gods…I also feel sure the universe will be destroyed shortly after.
I believe in quantum immortality.
I also believe Cecil is a vampire of some sort, and thats why we never see his picture!
I believe no one is truly “born” a homosexual. I believe it’s a result of environmental factors, or a conscience choice.
I do not believe ADD is a disease. I believe it’s a behavior acquired as a result of bad parenting.
I believe most Democrats want the U.S. to become a socialist nation.
I believe some dopers will reply to this post with a “rolleyes icon” and call me “ignorant,” despite that fact that they don’t have any proof to the contrary.