Unfortunately, I, nor you, have the answers past this life. To claim that you have the answers about things you, in reality, know nothing about all because you read some rule book written by man is fairly insane. "The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it." ~Robert G. Ingersoll All the claims I've seen you make in defense of your God are backed by the Bible and the word of God. Unfortunately, that kind of logic only works for you and the others that follow the word of God, so you haven't proven much to the rest of the world besides that the fact that, again, you're probably insane. You also mentioned that it would be a sad affair that some of us non-believer folk would raise children. On the contrary, it is a very sad and disgusting affair that you yourself will (or maybe already have) brainwash your children with this faith you take to be truth. Rather than bless them with free thought you'd rather !@#$%^&* them to a faith based on hypocrisy, fallacies, circular logic, and hate. The churches want donations because the priests live off of them. It should be expected that the poor will preach charity. It is very disappointing to see such human potential wasted when people let greedy hypocrites, called priests, control their minds. "Creationist make is sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night" ~Isaac Asimov I guess it depends on which you find to be more ridiculous. If you ask me, creationism is a pretty ridiculous notion based on the in-turn ridiculous idea of a God. Evolution on the other hand was a well thought out theory based on controlled data collected over many many many years and analyzed in both a quan!@#$%^&*ative and qualitative fashion. (No longer directed at thunderjam) Creationism is the one silver bullet Christians and the like hold because they can simply say "oh well God knew that was going to happen and he did it." Which means, to them anyways, that their religion cannot be dis proven. This is a great security blanket to hold onto until you realize that your religion and the word of God can't be proven either so you've still just got a story written in a book, by man. Sometimes I wish that I was actually a man of faith because it tends to be a lot easier to p!@#$%^&* through this life blindly and without thought than think about the reality and practicality of such topics.