[Cooker]

I agree. I think my underlying assumptions are too orthogonal to those of NotReady and spaminator101 for any of us to make any headway against the other in an argument. Still, I think my views are more reasonable than theirs, because theirs are fiat written by someone else. However, this fiat seems more reasonable if you accept that it comes directly from God. I don't believe this, and I think the evidence for God is almost nonexistence outside the sort of "beauty of the universe stuff". However, when you get right down to it, nature is more cruel than the most vile human ever has been.