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Taking god out of the equation makes everything so much more simple to understand.  Some good and bad things happen by chance; some happen based on human intervention.  There's no invisible entity to blame or thank and there's no eternal reward for believing in it.  That's the hardest part for people to accept and the main reason that belief in god persists.[/quote] I agree, you have to contort your thoughts so much to make any god theory fit with the world we live in.  I think the idea persists though because people just can't accept that their lives with all its problems, is all their is.  We want some sort of reward for being good. [/quote]

Belief in God is a matter of faith.  I don't believe anyone will ever prove or disprove the existence of God.  I happen to believe in a loving Creator, but I can understand that some people just don't buy it.  It does sound a little crazy, right? But I look at this world and all the craziness that we just accept as the way things are, the lies we accept as truths, and I think- it isn't any crazier to believe in God.  It isn't crazier to believe that the purpose of life is to love and serve others because God loves us and calls us to service.  [/quote]

The more that we discover about the extreme complexity of life the more I believe in intelligent design. The odds are far less for that than chance.

One of the co-discoverers of DNA wrote..."An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to almost be a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

That man believes life on earth was created by an intelligent being from another world. Hmmm? An intelligent being not of Earth. Guess that can't possibly be God huh?

And those conditions, and the odds of survival as evolution occurred in the extremely infinitesimal advances that would occur along that route, makes me believe that there is less of a leap of faith to intelligent design, God, than it is to believe it all started with single cell organisms and somehow against odds beyond our ability to calculate made it from that to what we have today. Not only is the foundation of life complex, the incredible diversity of life is too.

Now, that doesn't mean I don't believe that life doesn't evolve. Of course it does. But where did it start? That's the key question and if intelligent design was at the beginning then surely evolution could be a part of that design.[/quote]

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