First of all, that is a very backhanded thing to say, and mildly insulting. I'm doing very well raising my son without your pity or prayers, and am a standup guy and humanitarian in my personal life. The implication that I am a bad father and person because I am an atheist is not correct. You may have not meant it in an overt way, but the subtle implication of your statement is just that. Your second sentence was grammatically broken, so forgive me if I misunderstood it, but from what I could guess you are asking me how I could think he evolved into what he is, instead of being magically created by god. The answer: I can see proof of evolution with my own eyes. It is in the fossil records. We can see the strata of rocks and with very accurate scientific measurement, we can discern the age of the earth. We can look at the similarities in our DNA record to other species. We can witness the concepts of evolution and natural selection in bacteria on a petri dish. Evolution does not answer how life began. Nobody at this point knows for sure, so it remains a theory. But it is a theory supported by facts. To think that he was magically created is not very sensible. I am comfortable enough not knowing the origins of life, to a degree that I don't have to fabricate gods to fill the gap of knowledge that exists. I put more weight on logic and reason than faith. I trust that we know much more about the origins of life, and science overall, than ancient Bronze Age men.
It's ok, I don't believe you were purposefully intending to insult me. Just sounded a little "iffy" to me when I read it. :wink:
Some of the stuff about the gnostics was actual historic fact. The rest was fiction. I'd say it was 75% incorrect.
