Q's from a theist

[Anymouse]

Environment:
1. What is the predominate belief of your family and friends?
Mother-Wicca (later has become more of an atheist with Wiccan leanings if such exists), Father (deceased when I was a small child), sister-Christian church deaconess, cousins-Methodists. Friends mostly atheists, except my So. Baptist neighbour.
2. What is your general location? (If U.S. please use northwest, northeast, etc.)
A red state in the middle, town of 142 people, many miles from anything larger than 2,000. Originally from a Great Lakes state and a much larger town of 200.
3. Have you changed your beliefs in the past?
No.
4. What is your highest level of education?
High School and much private study.
Cosmology/Physics:
5. Many people have argued that the “big bang” implies a finite universe. Some people (myself included) believe that a finite universe tends to have more theistic leanings. How would you respond to this?
I do not have sufficient education to hazard a guess; I am comfortable with "I dunno" but am always interested in learning more.
6. If you have not already answered above- do you believe in a finite or eternal universe?
Got me. I suspect any opinion I might have on the subject will make no difference to the Universe.
7. How would you respond to the fine tuning argument?
I'll get back with you after I look it up.
Okay, I looked it up. To me it seems nothing more than coincidence (if nuclear forces were a bit different, atomic structures would not exist in the form we know them as, for example). That is like the ID argument that the atmosphere must have been designed, because it is just right for everything on Earth; the argument ignores the logical premise that everything it is -not- right for is already dead. A similar argument might be that the Farenheit and centigrade scales of temperature are identical at -40 degrees, but this does not show the two scales are related to each other by anything other than an accident.
Biology:
8. Do you believe in IDT (Intelligent Design Theory), TOE (Theory of Evolution), or other? (Seems like a weird question but there are some atheists that believe that we were designed by aliens)
Evolution through Natural Selection seems to be the best bet at the moment, subject to change if we learn something else.
9. Based on the question above, what would you say are the general points that back up your belief in this?
A raft of scientific endeavour and evidence in numerous fields of study.
10. How does a belief in [response above] relate to an atheist/agnostic belief?
Got me, I'm not an atheist. I'll have to ask my wife; she is. Natural selection and evolution do not necessarily require atheism.
11. Do you believe that morals are relative/preference? Please Explain
Depends how you define morals. As a social structure (I don't wish to be killed, therefore it behooves me not to kill, &c) they seem to be pretty much universal.
12. Is your belief partly due to something that you may not be able to explain to others?
They mostly work for me; other people's milage may vary.

There: clear as mud.