[Stu]

Originally Posted by Tom

Thats only assuming the universe actually had a beginning to start with. Our minds can't comprehend that the universe might have always just been here.

True. Or the multiverse theory could apply.

Either way, if some intelligence exists, I believe it to be an unconcious one. I'm not sure. You talk about your rabbit Setanta [you should be a veggie after saying something like that, surely?], but how do you explain this? :

I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.

David Attenborough.

Your standpoint is admirable, really, but most of these 'feelings' you experience are the result of neurological firings made possible through millions of years of evolution. We didn't need nor do we need a God to breath love into is. We created it all on our own. We give meaning to our instinctual tendancies because we are emotional creatures.

And if your not going to place your bet on just science, place it on the box god, because hey - the universe could be a practice in absurdity.

[Note to self : Stop reading Robert Rankin].