[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

"Religion" covers a lot of territory, Doc. Do you have a particular religion in mind? And what does the foregoing have to do with arrogance?

I didn't state it clearly, but Christianity is indeed the religion I had in mind with my comment about belief in a personal God.

Problem is that atheism has no scientific or rational basis for these claims. We live in an orderly and beautiful universe and it is not rational to claim that this "just happened".

I don't entirely disagree with you on this point. The existence of a higher power cannot be dismissed. There is not enough evidence to absolutely state one way or another.

However, though completely respecting the right of others to their own belief system, I personally do not think there is evidence of a personal God as represented by Christianity.

>>Belief in religion requires a much larger ego and is a much greater statement of arrogance on the part of mankind.

Well, nonsense.

Perhaps. Though it seems illogical to think that a large ego would concieve of an impersonal universe where he plays absolutely no role.

[Tribune7]

Though it seems illogical to think that a large ego would concieve of an impersonal universe where he plays absolutely no role.

You have conceived of a universe in which you play absolutely no role?

[Phaedrus]

The existence of a higher power cannot be dismissed. There is not enough evidence to absolutely state one way or another ... However, though completely respecting the right of others to their own belief system ...

I couldn't disagree more with pretty much all of this, Doc. The evidence, in the form of the laws of physics just to begin, is overwhelming, and I don't have a whole lot of respect for any belief system that's simply wrong. The Athiests are wrong, Doc, and it is, in my view, a matter of psychology as to how they got that way.