Hi David

You are not playing a fair game. You presuppose a supernatural being which you believe has always existed and whose origin can not be explained. It’s kind of ‘well God can do anything’ ‘He has always existed’ It makes any further discussion pointless. I mean I could say a huge space turtle was responsible for everything. It has always existed and requires no explanation for its beginning. It speaks to me, guides me in my life and I ‘know’ it is real. I have a special book which tells of wonderful things and proves that the space turtle is real. Many of my friends believe in it too.
You cannot disprove my turtle god. My god is just as valid or invalid as yours.

Human reason is not the final word but it’s all we have.

I think you underestimate the power of reason and evidence. Surely you use it everyday? To prefer a book written thousands of years ago over modern reasoning is well bizarre. I mean do you hold the same view with medicine? Should we ditch the MRI scanners and go back to blood letting. Or ditch disease theory and blame evil spirits?

Would you have the same faith say with a bank account on the internet? No you too would be a rationalist I suspect and check out the account to see if it was legitimate and what evidence there was. Basically was it real? How can people use these techniques every day the throw it out when in comes to religion?

Evidence even with the limits of the human brain is still far superior to faith based on zero evidence. Repeated testing and scrutiny usually get one pretty close to a darn good answer. This is made stronger when others can independently come to the same findings. This is something you seem to be well passing off as if it is nothing. The modern would not exist today if it was not for this process.

Do you believe in Zeus? No? Is there no evidence? Then you too are a Zeus atheist.
Human reasoning maybe flawed perhaps but light years better than… God exists and wrote the Bible. We know this because it says so in the Bible. Circular too right.