Out of interest, isn't posting on forums a way of demonstrating being self opinionated? If an opinion coincides with one other person's then that could be coincidence. If it resonates with a number of people it could be a good opinion but if it is a mass opinion based on doctrine then..

Its delusion.

pete. I have no issue with designating the reason if there is one, the term god. My issue is giving form and function to the term. Especially when convenient to push an increasingly discredited hypothesis such as intelligent design or age of planet.

Again. There is nothing wrong in rejecting a philosophy on the basis of lack of evidence without having to state you support another. There is a stance that would say the answers aren't being supplied by any hypothesis just yet.   

Or put another way, if Allah appeared tomorrow, religious non Muslims would be having more difficulty coming to terms with it than heathen buggers like me. After all, if the evidence is compelling. ..