(November 11, 2018 at 9:36 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(November 11, 2018 at 4:21 pm)Everena Wrote: So do I. I think all religions are man-made but with a good purpose in mind. Higher intelligence as the creator of this universe is still the only logical assumption.
But only so long as we feel the need to posit a creator. There could be a higher level intentionality going on behind the scenes to bring things together the way they are, but I definitely don't think there must have been. Do you? It seems once again we start from a different hunch regarding what we can't verify. I strongly doubt any higher order intentionality is required. I could be wrong about that but I feel it is highly unlikely. I can conceive of a natural god arising in consciousness right along side our sense of self. That would fit with a number of phenomena, including supporting the wide spread appeal of god belief. But how could such a natural god have anything to do with cosmos creation?
God always has been and always will be, just like our true selves. I appreciate your honesty and flexibility, but God has been proven to me beyond any and all doubt, so I am looking at things from a very different perspective.