I wasn't being biased. I was showing that there are basically 3 world views that are popular.
C'mon, Dan, you're killin me here. At least acknowledge you're biased. Nobody is free from it, not me, not you, not Gandhi. Some just use critical thinking to suppress bias while others use bias to suppress critical thinking.
Look at your question at the end below. You don't see how the analogy is slanted in your favor due to some clever sleight of hand? How could anyone NOT pick #1 when you omit the fact that the painter in that analogy must've always existed?
Theists belive in a painter and a painting. The painter painted the painting
Pantheists believe that the painter IS the painting
and Atheists believe that the painting did not have a painter and that it was always there.
Which one sound most reasonable?