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I probably ought to add that the Calvinistic position explains the whole matter in a much more ominous way than you have recognized.

As a consistent Calvinist, I feel compelled to point out that I regard you as unreasonable, as wickedly biased against truths which I frankly do find to be transcendentally obvious.

I am not scoffing at you. The fact is, I used to be very much like you. I was probably as bright as you are, and I was essentially just as smug as you are. As a result, I couldn't see what I see now.

According to the theology of the Book of Romans, you were born with this blinding bias. The fact is, you obviously hate your own Creator. And as a consistent Calvinist, I would urge you to consider the possibility, at least, that He hates you (Matthew 23:33).

I am not scoffing at you. The fact is, I used to be very much like you. I was probably as bright as you are, and I was essentially just as smug as you are. As a result, I couldn't see what I see now.

You peaked too soon.

According to the theology of the Book of Romans, you were born with this blinding bias. The fact is, you obviously hate your own Creator.

Because I don't "see" evidence of design as you do? And because you cannot explain what you "see," except by descent into mumbo-jumbo? This means I hate my Creator? I guess your special gift of "sight" leads you to that conclusion.

And as a consistent Calvinist, I would urge you to consider the possibility, at least, that He hates you (Matthew 23:33).

So I was always told. When I was a boy, I had to memorize and recite to my class one of Jonathan Edwards' sermons, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much in the same way as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; His wrath towards you burns like fire ..."

Thanks for bringing back some old memories.