God

This is not a religious site: we are objectively criticising the Darwin hypothesis on its own terms �
those of demonstrable science �and have spoken elsewhere of the tendency of some Darwin
defenders to change the subject from science to religion in order to deflect attention from a scientific
weakness in evolution which has been pointed out, they also try to portray all dissent from Darwinism
as ignorance and/or 'blind' religious faith when this is clearly not so. It seems to me that accusing
religious believers of 'blind faith' and demanding laboratory evidence of God (what would that be I
wonder?) shows a lack of imagination which is surprising in a Darwinist, since Darwin was always
'imagining' and 'believing' and 'having no difficulty in supposing' all sorts of things he had not seen
and could not prove (see his 'Origin' passage on the eye and other difficulties with the theory to
demonstrate this). We will attempt here to offer the open minded enquirer a very brief overview of
religion and ask the question 'how can we know?'. It is always possible to give offence and/or be
accused of error and bias, we'll have to live with that, but this is an honest attempt to give an overview
and suggest some lines of enquiry.

It is impossible to avoid the subject of God altogether when talking origins, and we would be
criticised for doing so. Certainly Dawkins et al often seem to be more concerned with religious belief
than fossils, genetics or biochemistry (see Dawkins' God). This is a logical debating strategy from
their point of view as it is much easier to find examples of religious believers whose behaviour or
thinking is questionable than it is for them to explain the lack of intermediate kinds which Darwin
predicted in the fossil record but which have not been found, the overwhelmingly deleterious nature of
mutations which falsifies Darwin's prediction of continuous improvement by gradual changes, DNA
check and repair which would stop any supposed evolutionary progress by 'correcting' even positive
mutations (if any occurred), or the irreducibly complicated nature of biochemical systems which do
not work unless many complicated interlocking parts are all perfect. In view of their inability to answer
these science questions, it's much easier to cry 'God!' and refer, for example, to allegedly religious
strife in Northern Ireland or ask a childish question like 'Who made God?'

The whole subject of God is too big for this site, this is a rough overview which aims to address
some of the most common misconceptions and clich�s, we hope to add some links to other sites
where the issues are considered in more depth.

A GREAT MAKER:
During the whole of human history, in all times and places, men
and women have accepted that there is a 'Great Maker' who
created all things and to whom our spirits go after our bodies die.
Human beings are incurably religious. They have considered the
world of nature, themselves, the cosmos, and have concluded, as
the apostle Paul wrote in the first chapter of his letter to the
Romans, that the existence of the things which can be seen
speaks to us of a Great Maker, who can be known if we wish to
know him. There have been many different religions, and the story
has been told in many different ways, combining wonder at
nature, supernatural explanations of phenomena like wind,

lightning, earthquake, the motion of the sun, etc with storytelling, moral sense, and wisdom for
everyday life and sustainable community living. For example, thieving makes life impossible, so tell a
story about the gods which discourages thieving; marital breakdown and sexually chaotic behaviour is
very damaging to society and individuals, so why not give society stability and good moral sense and
use religion to forbid adultery, and so on. All religions recognise that men and women are capable of
doing bad things, otherwise known as SIN. Sin is a big and vitally important subject which is very
poorly understood, it is more fully considered elsewhere.

And man made gods in his own image....
Some of the polytheistic religions (for example the Greek, Roman, Hindu,
Maori, Norse and various other mythologies with their fascinating characters
like Hercules, Poseidon, Zeus, Mercury, Loki, Maui, Vishnu etc) are very
obviously examples of 'man making gods in his own image'. For our purpose
here, we can take it as read that, fascinating as the polytheistic storytelling
legend religions are, and regardless of whether they contain useful wisdom
and/or provided social cohesion or other arguable benefits, they can be
dismissed as not being objectively accurate pictures of a supposed Great
Maker. Kali, Thor, Theseus, Atlas, Odin and the rest of them may make great
legends, and obviously inspired C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkein and others in
their storytelling, but as contenders for 'real' Gods, are non starters.