Yes, exactly right. I reject it just like I reject all the other points of view from people who think they know the truth. Until it is definitively proven one way or the other it's not proven It's my hope that when the day comes that mankind finally shakes off the last remaining clingers to bronze age religious beliefs it will be another huge step in our evolution. But it will require a revelation of knowledge that we just don't have right now and it's OK to admit that. Of course I flatly reject the purple mouse. It's just as absurd as thinking a magic man in the sky is listening to every one of our prayers and answering them (sometimes). You're preaching to the choir on this one . I don't give the magic man any special treatment but he gets it from others - why? - because he has billions of followers world wide. Purple mouse doesn't... and that's the difference you're not taking into account when you try to compare a far fetched analogy you just made up to a belief system that has been with us since recorded time. But what I am open to is the idea that all these religious superstitions could be based on a common truth. That there is some form of intelligence behind all of this. But is it the one described in any one of the hundreds of suspiciously human emotion driven stories that loves only us? Not likely.
George, I like it when you and I can agree, but I need to take your statement one step further. Who says he loves us at all, if he exists at all, or is a he? Maybe he hates us. Maybe he likes to dine on the bones of small children and gets off every time someone dies. Maybe he created our little terrarium (the universe) here just so he could have something to torture and f*ck with. Equally plausible, in my opinion.
In the same way that the universe could have been formed by a purple mouse farting into custard powder? The point i'm getting at is that equally unsupported assertions should be treated with equal scepticism. we can't afford the utterly unsupported assertion that a "god" done it special treatment not afforded to other unsupported assertions.