I was just about to set out my responses, only to find that Simon has already said pretty much everything I was thinking. Well played, that man!
Oh, and for the record: in my capacity as an atheist and in no other, I do not hold the beliefs that Zone think I would. Hence the problems he identifies with those beliefs are also not mine. I don't see the Universe in binary terms, either it was A or it was B. In the absence of blind, random chaos, some unspecified higher entity does not become the answer by default. The laws of physics are many things but one things they are not is purely random.
Oh, and for the record: in my capacity as an atheist and in no other, I do not hold the beliefs that Zone think I would. Hence the problems he identifies with those beliefs are also not mine. I don't see the Universe in binary terms, either it was A or it was B. In the absence of blind, random chaos, some unspecified higher entity does not become the answer by default. The laws of physics are many things but one things they are not is purely random.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
