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Re: Would you like to be fried with that?

If His solution is the same as that produced by millions of years of evolution

Evolution left alone produces a self-destructive system.

Yet that point of self-destruction was "magically" avoided. Over and over and again. In a system supposedly ruled strictly by survival of the fittest.

Then we just have to decide which of the thousands of gods is the correct one.

Not an issue. Note how you jump from one argument to another, simply to avoid one question:

There are no gods. We have arisen out of nothing, we are doomed to oblivion. What's to prevent The Purge (yes, the movie series) from becoming reality?

But to answer your question: an interesting theory I hold is that the gazillion deities there are in fact one. A typical revelation from God would be like: worship the one God*. Then, priests/kings/people in charge/whoever would add in additional "subordinates" to "revere", these including dead kings/priests/good folk/whatever (insert typical evolution-of-religion-as-power-grab blurb here). Over time, these subordinates would become deities, and a whole host of myths would be spun to explain. Then, God would be forgotten, and we have our current version of that polytheistic religion.

This explains the fact that religion was not founded once, but a lot of times, all over Earth and almost simultaneously. Keep in mind that most religions started out unwritten for tens to hundreds of years ... count how many generations is that.

Monotheists do not create imagery representing an immaterial God, so don't go looking for a statue or a drawing of an immaterial God.

* God with a capital G in this context: the immaterial, omnipotent, omnipresent, benevolent being who created existence, of these attributes only.

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