How do we know God is "Good"?

That's me all right. However, I have exactly the same non-choice as far as my religious beliefs.

The nature of my thinking processes are such that I have no choice. I arrive where I am because of what is put in front of me.If I am forced at gunpoint into a car of a terrorist I might say afterward "I had no choice." It seems you would be arguing I did.I am forced by external circumstances and my nature to come to the conclusions I have. I would like to believe. Others have said the same thing. It is not possible for me.It is also, as you say, a choice made on the evidence but that evidence allows me no other path so I don't see it as a choice.I perhaps, am more making a choice to be bald ("ish" if you please ) since I could pay to do something about that.

Just as I certainly don't condemn religious beliefs.

Mike, do you really mean that seriously? I really, really hope you don't. You're actually one of our better examples of creationists (or once a creationist). If you mean the above seriously then I have to tell you that the only result can be one of derision. It is laughable, silly, ridiculous, dumb and not the best of arguements. If you think otherwise I have to give up on you altogether. That sort of thing just makes the Dawkinists totally convinced that believers are mentally ill.This message has been edited by NosyNed, 11-17-2004 12:00 PM

I agree since I use the term "Dawkinist" to mean one who is rabidly anti religious. (e.g., Contra). At least as far as religious matters go. But that statement about babies makes the case that the Dawkinists want to make. That is that the religious are incompetant and unable to think clearly.I am thunderstruck that you would try to make such an obviously stupid argument. You're saying that an entire city had no babies. More than that you're saying that at the time of the flood there were no babies. You simply have to be kidding.I find it hard to state just how utterly ridiculous that idea looks. I am, for a change, at a loss for words.'Sides, while I'm no Biblical scholar, what does Abraham have to do with it?This message has been edited by NosyNed, 11-17-2004 12:13 PM