"yes, as a biblical Christian, I do believe original sin is the reason and outcome of all that is evil and disastrous."

Do you blame the victim then? How come the totally innocent suffer?


"Thus do I maintain, God is impossible simply because he is nowhere else other than in human fiction and, just like the Flying Spaghetti Monster, there are NO indicators whatsoever of him being a possibility."

But surely if we have no indication of him that doesn't preclude him from existence? I doubt we are close to recognising what life actually is, as obsessed as we are with our own carbon-based makeup. Even then I'll warrant we can't detect some carbon-based life forms, let alone the denizens of the wonderfully-named 'shadow biosphere'.

Extrapolate that lack of understanding to a cosmic scale and all bets are off. Sentinent gas clouds, beings so old we can't even recognise them as being alive let alone attempt communication as a single thought might take eons to form for them. We might be able to detect god but not have a clue what we're looking at.

Until it's disproved nothing is impossible, even god. At the moment, at this level of technology and understanding there is however not a jot of evidence he exists, only hearsay.

I heard a voice in a stream near our house once (true).