darth_ender said:

But I do believe that God is real, that this is his universe, and that our understanding of his intentions in both science and faith will ultimately align.

Which sort of brings me back to a question I asked earlier with no answer.

Why is God a man? Or rather, why do we refer to him as "him?" In my mind, if God exists, "he" is neither he nor she, but is no gender. It would make more sense to refer to God as "it." Why would an omnipotent, omnipresent creator of the universe have a gender?

Note that I don't intend to offend. I am only using "it" to describe a God who is neither he nor she, not as an insult.

Along similar lines, do you believe in the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe? Non-human life? If we were to discover a race of alien beings sharing the universe with us, wouldn't that throw the whole "God made us in his image" theory for a loop?

And stepping back a bit, if God really did make man in his image, and then created woman from man (isn't that how it goes, Adam's rib or something?), is that the justification for giving women second class status in many religions?

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