I caught a lecture by Ed Tabash on Public TV, had a link here, thought it would be a good place to be a member.
I grew up in a weak general Christian household, we’d go to church sometimes, and it was always understood that the Bible and the spin of each religion was just what groups of people today think could have happened in the past, mostly used as allegory, to teach you right from wrong and more general life lessons.
As I passed through middle school, I was always pushing “god” back - as I learned more biology, astrophysics, and history, I realized that any god would have to be only a Creator with little action in shaping the fates of today.
I actively engaged the Evolution/creation debate, with my best friend and father being strict Creationists. While my friend, who was taking the same biology classes I was, had “faith” that God made the environment that produced the Grand Canyon, layering up and carving down, in 3000 years, I decided that if there were a god as creator, then ‘he’ could use natural processes to achieve today from setting up whatever initial energy/mass distribution there was “at the beginning.”
Now, while I accept that I don’t know the answer, I have faith that there are no gods except the ones we create.
