joshfeola

you make some good points. however, it's naive to assert that people deploy nuclear bombs or fly planes into buildings for purely religious motivations. ideology has much more to do with geopolitics, historical conflict, and, ultimately, economics than it does with religion.

i also disagree that there are "billions of people" who believe in the god you describe above. i live in china, where virtually no one (statistically) is a monotheist. there are a multiplicity of Single Gods that people subscribe to without consciously acknowledging the differences between them. yes, people who do not initially believe in any given god concept are "persuaded", and convert. the idea of "a god" is just as... (read more)

why do these evolution polemics always attack the straw man of some imagined universally agreed-upon "Judeo-Christian" personal creator god that must be benevolent and rational? there is by no means a consensus on this among the christians and jews i've met, never mind muslims, hindus, buddhists, daoists, pagans... has anyone ever provided persuasive evidence for the explanatory power of Hinduism? yes. they're called hindus. etc.

call me a creationist but to my mind you come off just as foolish (and worse, inhumane) as your straw-man "Goddist" (such derogatory language has no place in science writing) when you deride an entire belief system (that is in fact only a figment of your own skewed,... (read more)