DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[CDF47]

- Before, I would say I was more ignorant, but not intentionally.  Even when I'm skeptical of something, I try not to rule it out, but I don't necessarily go out of my way either, just because there's too much to do in life, and I can't focus on everything.  Just like people claiming there is a Bigfoot running around somewhere.  If there is, I'm ignorant of it, but that doesn't mean there isn't.  I'm not an enthusiast for chasing Bigfoot as a hobby, so unless someone gives me a reason to believe, besides a blurry camera picture or video, then I'll just continue on with other things. If they are right, great, I'll look at what they want to show me.  If not, great.  Glad they're doing something meaningful to them.

Well then, call me skeptical of the god notion. There isn't even a grainy video of the guy. Just some people with feelings and pseudo-inspirations.

- There are a lot of things in this world that I wish weren't there as well, but there can still be beauty in those things.  Like finding beauty in what we view to make a mistake.  Someone lays a hot coal on a table and a child places their hand on it.  It's not a good experience for the child at that moment, but he or she knows not to touch hot coals in the future, or anything that might have been subject to large amounts of heat energy.  Not only do they know, they can tell others not to touch hot coals.  But that little singe kept someone else from being burned severely based on their experience and the knowledge they shared from it.  This is kinda what I meant before.  I tend to be very analytical and I like to be somewhere in the center of things. Knowledge is always viewed as a good thing, even when the information is negative.  It allows us all to act accordingly.

That may be so in small scales, but in large scales, for some reason, people forget what is good for them and end up supporting what was once known to be bad.

- I understand how you view Jesus dying and then he's back.  Yep, would seem like an oddity at face value.  But it wasn't just that.  It was like that coal I was just speaking of.  At face value it seems bad that the child burned themselves.  When Jesus died, it was very similar.  Someone died a brutal death because others failed to see their value, and as such felt they had removed the problem.  The thing is, he wasn't the problem, they were.  They got what they wanted, and in return he offered what they needed.  It's not that he had to die, but that he chose to.  I think comparing it all to a bridge going across a gap would be a good comparison.  He became that bridge.  Anybody can cross, but nobody is forced to.

I understand that it works in the story. A story that  helps keep the believers in a state of somewhat suffering and awaiting that next journey... which helps keep them behaving properly, in a way.

But look at it from the point of view of a god who has always been around. A god who has always allegedly loved mankind. A god who would have always kept an eye out.
Even the story of the 10 commandments seems to suggest that god is mostly absent. But is that the story we get from Jesus' disciples points of view?

Anyway, given an always present and loving god, what is the purpose of Jesus' suffering in a single instant in a mostly illiterate era?

I won't go around telling anybody they have to believe what I do.  What I can do is be willing to share why I believe the way I do.  What they do with that is up to them.  Yay or nay, they can be my friend regardless, and if they tell me not to talk to them about it, then I respect that.

I can live with that.
But do you mind if people probe that reason for why you believe?

The Ten Commandments do not show the Lord is mainly absent.

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Damn, do I smell 20000 posts,  can we make it?

Getting there.