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It is my position that "God" is still real and active even if the Bible were completely false or fake. And a lot of the Bible is - IMO - completely false and fake. I myself came to believe in a God because I experienced ghost and demons and spirits in this world and THEN then I went to the Bible to see if it could explain the spirit world. And an ant is intelligent so an ant or group of ants building an ant-hill or ant-hole is thus using intelligent design in their work. So seeing intelligent design in the "big bang" or in the living creatures including mankind does not mean it has to be higher intelligence. In fact the scriptures (if they be correct or not) shows a God in simplicities, even the simple stuff is where God is to be found. It is a mistake to look for a higher intelligence when looking at itelligent design (ID). That is an important point and pointer. I like science and I am saying a simple intelligence and not a lower one. I do believe the evidence shows us that science is in fact taking us closer to the truths and thereby taking us closer to the thing we call God. So if science is true to its own claim that science is seeking out the truths - then the scientific discovery of intelligence and of God would be a GREAT scientific discovery. The 5th dimention is intelligent design - God. Otherwise the defense of NOT wanting to discover the reality of a God is not scientific nor honest. I find it to be a huge mistake when science mis-uses the wrong "Orthodox" distortion that God must be a super high intelligence, because that "Orthodox" perception is extremely vain and self flattering, ie: God must be super smart because we see our selves are very intelligent. In the example of the Space Shuttle it was created as a super intelligent invention because the Shuttle creators made it the very best that they could, so the Space Shuttle is a super intelligent invention equal to its creators. So God invented a super intelligent creation in the universe and in mankind and so we are that expression of its super intelligence and so in searching for our creator we must not be looking for superior intelligence at all. Only equal intelligence would be realistic. That is the logical approach with our human vanity and our Orthodox distortions removed. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthodox To add to that Space Shuttle example; what if the Space Shuttle could think? and it would see mankind as inferior to itself because man can not fly into space, man does not have onboard computers, man has emotions and confusing aspects, and mankind would be seen as the Shuttle's servants because people keep the Shuttle functioning. My point is that mankind (like the Space Shuttle) is the expression of super intelligence and that is why seeing our Creator for what the creator really is - does not mean looking for any superior intelligence in the ID. We are already the super maximum intelligent design of all times. Like the Star Trek movie about "V ger" being the man-made "Voyager" space craft gaining super knowledge and unable to see mankind as its inventor. Mankind is like that "V ger" in that we fail to see our God because of our own distorted perspective. I say that is why the science is so extremely blind. The science only wants its pre-set "truths" and refuses to look at the evidence contrary to its particular kind of truth. This is exactly my point here in telling to open up your perception and see what is being exposed by science. It depends on how we define science, but I would say that discovering life on another planet would be praised as a scientific discovery. Like science put men on the moon. So saying the discovery of a "God" would not be scientific is just another example of closing out a truth because of refusing to see it. I do understand the closed minds but I do not respect them. I do not know what God is, so THAT answer is beyond me. But I do strongly object to seeking God under the claims of Orthodox religions because they know less then we do. So I have been saying from my first posting here that I do declare that God is not Orthodox at all. Religions do not even interpret the scriptures correctly and they have confused the reality of God with their fantasies and their distortions. I see science as a way of correcting some of those errors. First I object to that idea of "worship" because the God of the Bible does not ask us for "worship" and Jesus does not ask for worship and worship is a trait derived from idolatry and improperly incerted into Christianity. The word for worship only meant "to show or declare worth" and not bow, pray, homage, etc., as that is all "Baal" (idolatry) stuff, and the human master's demand for worship - not God. So I say it is mistakenly mixing up the Orthodox false God and false claim for "worship" and mixing it in with the God that science is exposing, they are greatly different indeed. And it is not just that the true God (Creator) created us, but that it (the thing called God) is alive and active in this world and beyond - so that is the BIG qualification. The limitations of God is the point where science and God meet together. By demanding an "infinate God" then that is another blind spot for NOT seeing the reality of the thing we call God. Certainly in science we can not make demands on the outcome, especially when the evidence points otherwise. What is the universe but finite - yet it goes on forever, and our minds go faster then light and we race to the edge of the universe to discover finite again, and people want infinate in their God when it is not there. Some people just can not be satisfied - even God has limits. I do not like the name "God" myself. That word "God" comes from an old Anglo name for an idol, as people would carry their Gods around with them. The word "God" is extremely incorrect from the Bible and elsewhere. The Bible words for "God" were Elloheem meaning plural as in Gods with an "s" and the better name was Yahweh which meant Creator in a male tense as in "Father", and the two words are combined in the Bible as Yahweh Elloheem (each can be spelled in other ways) and that meant Father of the Gods (using our English terms) as it would more likely be translated as Father (or Creator) of the Spirits. So I find the Bible equates "God" as a large group of creatures, in a different form then our physical existance, and it has a hieracrchy with a Father or King / Ruler and subordinates, like Jesus was said to be the "spokesperson" and then there is said to be arch-Angels and demons and more. I say we each and all can see or experience the spirits or demons or Ghost now with just a little effort, and it apparently happens often all over the earth. So I am actually agreeing with science again (agreeing in my own way) that the common perception of the thing we call God is very incorrect indeed. I am saying that if we take the miracles out of the Gospels, or just ignore the miracles, then we can see the message from Christ and see the man in a clearer way. The miracles are really a divertion from the real message. Biblical Criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_criticism does that and it works well.

"Courage is the key to all advantages."
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