no one can fault you for 'believing' that some supreme Being set everything in motion,

Well, that's very kind of you, Bill, but wide of the mark unfortunately. No-one could fault an indoctrinated child or someone who has been brainwashed into thinking that he will go to hell if he briefs against God, but your buddy pete is in neither category. He comes here and exposes himself deliberately to views that are at odds with his own strange and pig-ignorant prejudices, but he then chooses to not listen. Not to you, me or anyone else. Now any minute now he will be back here thanking you for your lovely, courteous reply, etc., as he has a hundred times before. But he will not have listened. He is the champion of champion piss-takers, and you are his numero uno sucker.