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Me neither. A rational discussion is very nice.

One thing that I strongly believe is that it takes a “leap of faith” to NOT believe in a deity. To suggest that there isn't “design” and then “intelligent design” means that the person has to accept a lot as fact knowing that our experiences in this natural world deceive us. What we perceive with our senses is a deception — the real world is much greater and very abstract for our simple minds to comprehend. There is a lot of weird stuff and it is getting weirder and stranger as we learn and discover more.

The 1st amendment — the anti-religion people always quote the separation clause but then ignore the second part — the right to practice our faith freely. Does the establishment clause prevent us from carrying a bible on the grounds of the capital and reading the 10 commandments? I would hope not. Yet, that is where we are headed.

BTW, I like it when the atheists and the Satan worshipers set up next to a Nativity Scene — it shows the contrast of hate from those so called “faiths” with the love and absolute sacrifice and suffering for people who hated him shown by Christ and the Christian faith.

"it takes a “leap of faith” to NOT believe in a deity

This is how I've always felt; I can never understand how people can't see deliberate intelligent design in Creation.

But, we're all made differently; and no doubt, that is part of the plan of Intelligence, as well. Many of the discoveries that have been made by atheists, will eventually play a part in the final recognition that 'Intelligent Design' did create us. One of the things that amuses me greatly is that so many people think that we've figured everything out already; and that religion and science will never meet, and become partners - despite the fact that scientific discoveries have been moving toward that anyway, for a century. (A lot of scientists seem to be afraid of expressing what their guts are telling them :-)

(When I imagine hitting the lottery really big, one of the things I always dream of doing with that money is endowing a chair at some great research university, to actually study, without prejudice, the possibility that we are both spiritual and physical 'beings' - something like PEAR, at Princeton :-)