DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[Whateverist]

I'll bet you fooled more than me.  I guess you could call a potential god arising in consciousness a 'higher' power, but if you have a handle on what you believe which permits you not to hold it literally, do you think it is a good thing that so many other believers believe in something kind of out there?  I mean, maybe as atheists we are apt to be too reflexively dismissive, but is believing that obedience to an all powerful all knowing judging god is the true meaning of existence really all that uplifting?

I don't call our consciousness a higher power, because all it is, is who we are and there are conscious people doing horrifying things all over the place. Nothing "higher" about them. There is nothing "out there" about believing in God. It is the only logical assumption that exists.

Even if that seems to be so, the devil is in the details of what you believe about that God.  I suspect fundies are not being as well served by their belief as you are with yours.  

Okay, I for one am off to bed.  Oh my, how did it get to be 8:30 pm already?  I wonder if this thread will hit a 1,000 pages before I return?  Hang in there if you're still having a good time.  Or take a break and make that intro thread.  Although honestly, after showing yourself to be so responsive and fun, no one is going to want to tip toe around the Introductions forum on their best behavior.  But I for one would enjoy getting some background to understand what brought you here.  (Even I made an intro thread .. eventually, but then I was raised by wolves.)