You guys forget that, in Pete's logic, 'God' can do anything.. including form mountains. If your 1st premise is that "Go did it all", everything else follows.

Pete is not stupid.... he is mistaken about things, but not 'arrogant'. He is emotionally committed to a position... one we all realize is misguided, but he defends it as well as possible. I debate with him and show the flaws in his premises and reasoning, but respect his efforts to explain his deeply held beliefs.

There are millions...probably hundreds of millions (maybe a couple billion)...of people who hold deep religious convictions about the nature of reality and religious beginnings. Many of those people are not nearly as restrained, polite and decent as Pete.

Myself, I wonder about the urge to belittle & insult someone who takes the trouble to defend and explain his belief system under these circumstances.