[NYer]

To me, belief in God was so unreasonable that, by definition, no reasonable person could believe in such a thing.

For us it is just the opposite.

[annalex]

The best, most thoughtful responses came from Catholics. Incidentally, their answers were consistently better than the ones from atheists. It intrigued me that Catholics could handle anything I threw at them. Also, their responses reflected such an eminently reasonable worldview that I kept asking myself: How is it that Catholics have so much of this all figured out?

Ha ha. Welcome home.

[SnakeDoctor]

Good for her, and God bless.

SnakeDoc

[marron]

Was there ever an aha moment that finally made you abandon atheism?... Several, but one in particular actually shocked me. I asked myself two questions: What is information? And: Can information ever come from a non-intelligent source? It was a shocking moment for me because I had to confront the fact that DNA is information.

Sound familiar?

[LiteKeeper]

“Information” is the fly in the ointment that renders evolutionism untenable!

[marshmallow]

I wonder if she was really an atheist? I've come to believe that true atheism is rather uncommon and that many people who call themselves "atheists", are in fact, just obdurate agnostics for whom the bar is set rather high when it comes to evidence required for God's existence.

Despite her skepticism, she still possessed a certain openness and honesty and this is usually absent in atheists. Atheism is like a religion in itself. It is not just unbelief. It is a positive faith in the nonexistence of God.

Anyway, what does it really matter? She's found faith and God bless her on her continued journey toward the Promised Land.

[B-Chan]

It was a shocking moment for me because I had to confront the fact that DNA is information. If I remained an atheist, I would have to believe that all the intricate, detailed, complex information contained in DNA comes out of nowhere and nothing.

But I also knew that idea did not make sense. After all, I don’t look at billboards — which contain much simpler information than DNA — and think that wind and erosion created them. That wouldn’t be rational. Suddenly, I found that I was a very discomfited atheist.

This was essentially the same intellectual path that I followed on my way back. The idea that DNA was created by the random action of weather and radiation upon dirty water just seems ludicrous to me. If that's what the data suggest, then we're obviously interpreting the data incorrectly.

I mean, imagine if a team of astronauts found a functioning digital calculator buried in a million-year-old stratum of the surface of Mars. Would they conclude the calculator was designed by some intelligent creature, or that the calculator was created accidentally by the effect of billions of years of weathering upon Martian stone? Would they try to find more finished artifacts, or would they start looking for fossil electronic devices demonstrating a gradual progression of calculator ancestors beginning with the first primitive transistors created by chance from the non-living minerals of Mars?

Of course not. The calculator in all its complexity and purposeful design would be seen rightly as incontestable evidence of the presence of intelligent life on Mars.

And yet a single biological cell is fantastically complex -- much more complex than any calculator...

[Brytani]

God bless her and her husband.

God is indeed great when the eyes of such an staunch atheist can be opened.

From one Catholic convert to another - welcome home.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Ping of interest. Of particular note is the bit about DNA.

[the invisib1e hand]

it’s like watching hamsters on a wheel. eventually they get tired and give up.

[oldmanreedy]

"I asked myself two questions: What is information? And: Can information ever come from a non-intelligent source?

It was a shocking moment for me because I had to confront the fact that DNA is information. If I remained an atheist, I would have to believe that all the intricate, detailed, complex information contained in DNA comes out of nowhere and nothing.

But I also knew that idea did not make sense. After all, I don’t look at billboards — which contain much simpler information than DNA — and think that wind and erosion created them. That wouldn’t be rational. Suddenly, I found that I was a very discomfited atheist."

So she made a major life decision based on grotesquely stupid creationist talking points. Awesome. You guys can have this one, we don't want her.

[FormerLib]

I was curious if she still maintains this blog and, if so, what’s the URL?