'I can't be sure God does not exist' Richard Dawkins admits he is in fact agnostic

If I was an alien from a far superior planet, why in the world would I plant single cell organisms on a distant planet with a high probability of failure only to wait millions or billions of years in hopes of having it turn into something? That sounds about as crazy as Obamacare.

There are a great many people that have a legitimate anger toward God, as he was advertised at the time, among kids.

Abused, poor, sexually victimized - one could legitimately ask ‘Where was God when my Dad was sticking his penis in my ass every third night?’

I would think that coming back to the neighborhood of ‘There is a God’ would be difficult. I know that getting from ‘There is a God, and He knows me, loves me, and wants me to be happy doing His will’ is a bit longer journey.

Most of the questions I encounter among unchurched kids these days start with, “If there’s a God, then why . . . “

Paul had it easy - God literally hit him over the head. This is what modern Christians don’t understand - every single ‘hero’ of the Church was a deeply flawed individual. Almost all of them had some sort of ‘Close Encounter of the First Kind’ with God too.

This is why the story of Jesus forcing Thomas to place his hand in His wounds is so profound. How many that believe in Christ afterward would never have such an opportunity?

Even moreso, there was the chimp typing experiment idea... But that’s the problem, you can’t really disprove ID, because all experiments are strictly controlled and organized, and therefore not random.

I would recommend Expelled by Ben Stein. A good film on the absurdity of the idea that the universe is wholly random.

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