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Dang, God vs something else gets tedious.
In 1000 years people will look back on these discussions with the same smirk that we would regard a middle-ages conversation in which people earnestly argued for the existence of dragons or goblins. By then we will have the physics and the bio-physics to explain conciousness in all its forms; which is essentially the battle-ground and the bounty over which religious debate rages.
Science cannot explain conciousness at the moment, so the god-squad jump in with both feet blazing, plastering 'God' over all the things they do not understand, or that are not yet understood quantifiably, and throw rocks and sympathy at the rest of us for having the courage to face the void 'alone'.
And they always point to clumsily mis-translated passges in whichever book their particular clan uses, which normally begin 'God says dont do this or that...'.
Tell you what God said (and he spaketh to me on high, last week) :- 'I gave you an uniquely complex and wonderful mind to explore this universe and yourselves as much as you can, including the freedom and courage to understand it all without needing to invent me for the bits you dont know yet - stop pointing into the book as a short cut to thinking, and be nicer to gay people - Im sure your own 'lifestyle choice' of knocking on front doors, looking down your noses and droning on and on about your unprovable abstract cosmological stop-gap gets on their nerves as well, but they dont make laws about you, do they ?'.