from the grand designer to Jesus?
People always justify belief in God by saying that the universe needed a creator to balance out the fundamental forces & set things in motion, etc... or in other words an intelligent first cause (who designed the designer though?)...
But how do we get from this ambiguous grand designer to the Judeo Christian God, or Jesus, or al Lah? Where is the middle ground?
If science is only beginning to unlock the mysteries of the universe & the beginning of time, then how could the middle eastern dudes living 1000-4000 years ago know so much? Why did they deserve divine intervention?
I think that it's fair enough for someone to believe that the universe was created by an intelligent force (although i personally see no reason to believe that as of yet), but to make the leap from that to Jesus (for example) is where it all falls down for me.
Jesus sounds like he was a cool guy, but nothing more than that really, just a hip little revolutionary who made a big impression on a handful of people who later became influential. And for me personally, Christianity as a philosophy was fucked up the moment the prissy apostle Paul started meddling in things. And as for the other major religions... just LOL