This can get quite deep. Depending on what you mean by 'design'.

If you design a pair of dice and you toss them and a four comes up. Did you "design" the four?

Well, clearly if you designed the dice, you designed them in a way that a four could potentially come up. But when you rolled the dice, even you as the designer did not know that a four would necessarily come up. Although you did know that it was a possibility and that something like 3.5 was not.

If this universe was 'designed' it was designed in it's ability to evolve into many different things. Evolution IS a process of design in the very same way that rolling a pair of dice is a process of design. Only numbers on the dice can come up. So that's the 'design'. In this way, evolution IS a process of design.

The real question is, did someone design the dice? Or did they just occur by accident?

Blasphemy is nothing more that disrespect. If you don't believe in yourself then yes, you are disrespecting yourself, and so that would be blaspheme.

One cannot both be separate from God and also have God in him.

Logically speaking, I cannot believe in a separate entity existing that sprang out of nothing and created the universe.

Even my own existence is illogical.

BUT the fact remains that I do exist. Therefore, I accept that.

I do not need to have any faith in order to accept that I exist.

I do not need any proof in order to accept that I exist.

Therefore, logically, if I claim to believe in "GOD" then it follows that I must be GOD.

If I believe that you (others) exist they MUST either also be God or else a figment of my imagination.

Because of such independent interactions with other living beings I prefer to believe that they exist, hence logically they must also be God.

Pantheism.

Jeanniebean writes:

"Why am I grumpy? People who lie piss me off."

Shiki does not lie.

"The entire Christian religion is one big fat lie and people who don't even realize it go around repeating those lies as if they were truth."

Where are the lies? Just because you don't agree with it, that does not make it a lie.

"They have no proof to back up any of it."

Ah, the proof angle. Well, I can say that you have no proof that God does not exist, right? It's not about proof. It's about faith.

"They are not logical."

Untrue. I am a Christian and am extermely logical.

"They expect everyone else to join in their insanity."

First of all, we're not insane. Second, what you are writing is not true. Did I ever say one time that you should believe or become a Christian? Nope, we're just discussing.

"When they don't, they ask the ridiculous question: Why don't you believe? When the simple answer is because none of it is the least bit believable."

The questions are not ridiculous, but I am sensing that you are a bit miffed. Have you tried a hot cup of tea and Girl Scout cookies? They are seeling them now, and the peanut butter ones are quite tasty.

Just my two cents,
Shiki

I Love Dragon Ball Z

Akira Toriyama is truly a legend.

I don't have to read anybody's proof. I am a liberal. I think I know what I am in favor of.

Oh, I do hae to take exception to ne of your points. Most ignorant people actually believe that Obama raised taxes. This is the faux News syndrome. Maybe you can tell me. When did this happen? Did it get into the news? Who told you this?

Your opinion. It's a crappy one, but you are definitely entitled to it.

I don't have to read anybody's proof. I am a liberal. I think I know what I am in favor of.

Yes, yes. We all know what you think liberalism means. Four of the things you mention are things that liberals favor. Five of them are a lie.

Just like it's the DemocratIC Party

OK. Help me figure this out. why are we getting an article like this from Faux News?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/10/watching-uproar-wisconsin-protests-time-remember-unions-make-lives-better/

Spell check is your friend. It's FOX news.

Read all about it here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism