Those are some good observations.
As far as whether or or not God exists, Dan, that's a whole different story. Let's take God, as in the God believed in by Jews and Christians (the only god ever known to die for his creation [believed by Christians], by far the most popular throughout history, and the one I'm most familiar with).
According to the Christian Bible, you can't please God without faith. So if you could prove God exists, it wouldn't matter to him. That defeats the purpose, according to the Christian Bible. I don't think anyone would believe you if you did prove the existence of any God...
Now, I am a Christian. But I try not to be biased, as I can understand where everybody is coming from.
Most people believe what they want to, even if it has less supporting evidence. But if you are already biased to Creationism or Evolution (or some other belief/theory) then you will probably twist the evidence around in your favor. Thankfully, a smarter Christian told me not to ever try to prove God's existence a long time ago. Anyone trying to prove God's existence has already lost touch with God, or is ignorant with good intentions.
Now, some people mention things completely unrelated as a logical red-herring fallacy to try to avoid having to prove their point. And I get frustrated when people do that. But we seem to have our heads on straight at this programming forum. Programmers do seem to have more logic than the average person...I wonder why.
Even if I wasn't a Christian, I would still have a heard time believing in evolution, just because of the reasons I mentioned above, and some of the concepts in the article Dan posted.
Creationism and Evolution does make for a good debate. You might be able to prove the evidence favors Creationism, but I don't think it's worth a person's time to prove the existence of God.
Anyways, that's just my little rabbit trail about God, Creationism, and Evolution haha.
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