DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[Everena]

You mean I am not impressive in the atheist dimension? Oh darn.

We are as concerned to hear it as we would be if we were told a lobotomized chimp is unimpressed with our calculus.

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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.

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Everena: Chemicals that came to be how exactly? And why are the chemicals capable of doing such amazing things?

You know, a real education cost money.  Are you paying tuition here?

And by that you mean that you have no clue how the chemicals came to be or why they are capable of doing such amazing things. And I already have an education. Do you?

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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.)

Everena: Easy, they are all in error because they are all man made