(July 11, 2013 at 2:20 pm)Dionysius Wrote: Skepticism is certainly warranted but out right denial would seem to be intellectually hasty. A belief in God can be reduced to the question of whether discarnate consciousness is possible. For example a compelling argument can be developed if we view the ostensible perpetuity of the universe as a self-regulating intelligence where it wills a continual existential balance; a symmetry of elemental interactions necessary to sustain life. While no definitive agent known as nature can be isolated we know that such a corporation of influences do indeed exist which comprise nature.
Even if we accept what you say as true, why label that with a term that carries so much baggage such as "god?"