[Donald Croft Brickner]

@ Bobbyd2:

Hi, Bobbyd2. You've already addressed (regardless of its due location in this website or not) more topics than I have to date. I'm kind of slow-afoot.

I like this topic. For me, simply, there is a God -- a creator, to be more precise -- or there isn't. I don't believe the mixing of the separate, and not necessarily related (!), topics of "God" and "religon" are in the same ballpark.

I kind of like baudrunner's expressed notion that, "Religion is the end product of the realization that there is a God." I haven't yet tuned into (read that, understood) the balance of baudrunner's coments; I feel there's a mixing of topics there (although I think I agree with religion as an institutionalization).

Regardless, are you, bobbyd2, more interested in the topic of religion, or in the concept of a (single creator) God? They're really different topics, from a prospective discussion standpoint.

I'm full-bore in support of an intelligently-conceived and expressive universe, by the way. There's just so-o-o much intriguing substantial experiential and anecdotal evidence to support it...both of which need to be placed on the table right next door to empirical evidence, and treated with equal respect.

Ba-dump-bump.

DCB