angelina wrote:
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My sister in law, a muslim living in the US once said to me,
" You only need to look around you at the natural world we live in
to realise that God exists."
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What do you think?
Angie
This may be true, though I dispute the idea that creation needs a creator. Indeed, the natural world is so obviously full of imperfection, redundancy, and botched workmanship that it testifies more to random selection than intelligent design.
Supposing, however, that our universe is the work of a creator; even so, our man-made gods, made in our own image, and our obviously contradictory and multi-plagiarized "scriptures" clearly have nothing to do with "Him" (even our projection of gender onto such an entity is confirmation of this fact). Doesn't mean they aren't fascinating in themselves, of course, or that they haven't made a contribution to our moral and psychological development (or equally, retardation).
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