(February 22, 2013 at 5:06 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Loop to the post above: what we know about God we reasoned. What we now see, hear, or otherwise experience we do with the understanding that this reasoning affords us. In scientific knowledge, that is zero. In understanding purpose, it's everything.
Once more I'll repeat it: religion doesn't inform scientific investigation one tiny bit. Origins is a question for science, not religion.
Now I don't want to put words in your mouth, but you reason what you apparently know about god from the notion that there is purpose in the universe?
If you believe it, question it. If you question it, get an answer. If you have an answer, does that answer satisfy reality? Does it satisfy you? Probably not. For no one else will agree with you, not really.