The worst thing about religious debates is the way people (of whatever camp) act like they know what they're talking about when they don't. The Cosmos is too large to be conntained in anyone's head. This is all conjecture with hand-selected facts. None of us "knows" anything about what drives the universe.
Arguing with people, making claims of knowledge that do not stand up to dispassionate observation, this is all a waste of time. People are not reasoned into faith or apostasy; faith is a gift of the Spirit. We respond to religion on a spiritual level or don't. I did not arrive at the Truth of Catholicism by argument and then drag my heart to church. Rather, my heart from boyhood loved it, and I sought for ways to bring my intellect to line with it.
To atheists, this is the antithesis of reason, "magical thinking" and the like. I submit that they are more subject to it than they know. Did they really abandon God because they examined the evidence dispassionately? Or did they want to abandon Him all along, and jumped at the first boat they thought would carry them?
In any case, we shall one day discover who is lost at sea.
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