Originally Posted by De Maria
Take into account, your own experience. How did your children get into your womb and why do feel that you should be thankful for them?
To whom do you feel you should be thankful?
1.) Its the same process, your reason tells you that someone had to have given them to you. It isn't faith, because, if I understood your witness correctly, you didn't believe in God before. So, if you didn't have faith, you didn't believe in God, yet you came to the realization that someone else existed to whom you should be grateful.
2.) That only works for the period in which the child is dependent on the parents. My own experience is that I was told there was a God and I believed. Then I made up my own mind that God did not exist. Then one day I realized that I had been wrong. From viewing the evidence of the conception and birth of my children and by looking at the wondrous design of nature, I realized that only a super intelligence many times more powerful and intelligent than human beings could have produced it.
3.) There is a difference between proof and evidence. Proof is a special kind of evidence which is indisputable. Obviously, I have not produced indisputable proof. I have provided the evidence which has led me and many others to conclude that God exists.
4.) Please provide the quotation where I said that I could prove that God made anything.
5.) In essence, what you have done is created a straw man. You have changed what I said in order that you could win sound as though your argument were superior.
6.) So all you have to do is provide the quotation where I said I had provided "proof".
7.) Personally, as I've said, I was told God existed. But I came to believe otherwise. Then one day, soon after the conception of my own child, I came to realize that I had nothing to do with that conception except to make whoopie. And how could such a marvelous thing come about without a wonderful intelligence, marvelous in Its own right, to guide the process?
Sincerely,
De Maria
