(June 5, 2015 at 7:35 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Consequently, we're both left in the position of having to argue that our conclusion is the most reasonable explanation of the facts as we interpret them.
This misrepresents your position. I'll concede a draw with a deist so we can get on to more fruitful conversation, but I can't do this with you. Your God comes with wasted Sunday mornings, an organization that plays a shell game with sexual predators, transubstantiation, relics, stigmata, exorcisms, thought crimes, eternal punishment, homosexual bigotry, infallible Pope, 60 year old virgins giving marriage advice, global floods, a bullshit creation chronology, silly prohibitions of all sorts, impossible events called miracles, a small army of people who don't understand the burden of proof and for an entity that is supposed to know everything a severe lack of understanding of leprosy.
When you pile all this shit onto your idea of God your interpretation of the facts is no longer reasonable.