DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[Angrboda]

Oh, and having had lengthy discussions with those who conceive of God differently than you do, I find your claim rather implausible, and likely to be suffering from the fallacy of the stolen concept in that your view of God is infected with your prejudices and biases to no less an extant than any other person's conception of God, so your conclusion that God possesses this or that trait or characteristic is therefore unreliable, and, the God you claim to believe in is therefore fundamentally unknowable.  If that is the case, all your blather about God this and God that simply shows that you are both inconsistent as well as not knowing what the fuck you are talking about.

Yes, because that particular version of God makes sense to them. And that is fine. Some people only feel comfortable with a humanlike figure as their God. And the religion they choose is probably the one most likely to help them along in their journey through life. Remember this: Christians, Judaists, Jainists, Muslims, Hindus, Scientologists and most New Agers (the vast majority of believers in the world) all believe in a creator God, a soul that exists separtely from the body, and afterlife in a heavenly type place, and reward/redemption. We are all alot more alike than you think.

That doesn't resolve the problem. Once you have asserted the claim you are thereby implying that all descriptions of God are to some extent not a reflection of God's true nature, but rather a reflection of the needs of the individual believer. The task then becomes one of determining how we sort out which of a believer's beliefs about God are in error in that they substitute the needs of the believer in place of the properties of the thing in itself, i.e. God. Given the assumption, that becomes an intractable problem, the only reliable answer to which is that we can't rely upon anyone's beliefs about God, and, God is therefore unknowable and theists, in as much as they claim to know specific things about God, are wrong. In other words, you've pissed in the pool, and your efforts to remove the impurity are unsuccessful (so far).

(God help me if anything along the lines of "all stories are true" makes an appearance in this discussion, but it seems inevitable.)