"Silly and immature."
Seems to me that silly and immature would be ignoring the obvious, in favor of pretending.
Lay aside the belief's of many of us about sin, salvation and a hereafter and just look at the world around us. We see foilage, perfect in it's own way and reproducing it's own kind. We see us humans and other warm blooded mamals, reproducing our own kind as are the fish, birds and insects.
We don't see a world or it's occupants brought to life by haphazzard accidents of nature. We see things that were designed by an intellegent force.
At some point FR has to decide whether it's a board for conservatives or a board for Fundigelicals. It seems to be becoming the latter.
The Republican Party is in danger of flushing itself down the toilet and never winning an election again if it changes from a Party with the fundigelicals as a part of the party, to the fundigelical party.
So you're saying that Kerry/Edwards and the Clintons were designed by an intelligent force?! I'll stick with the Big Bang Theory.
"Lay aside the belief's of many of us about sin, salvation and a hereafter ..."
Consider it done!!! You forget to include the beliefs of a lot of oter groups as well, ancient Greece, Hindus, Native Americans, witches...
Then again, anyone who's not a follower of your religion is "ignoring the obvious", right? Not just atheists...
That's a great argument. I don't really understand how atheists can ignore it. Another example: I read that each of the few billion nerve cells in the brain can connect with its neighbors in tens of thousands of different configurations. If you do the math, the number of possible arrangements of the brain as a whole is a number greater than the estimated number of atoms in the universe. Gives an insight into man being created in the image of God.