To frog:
The reasons I, as a Deist, believe in a God who probably has not intervened since the moment of Creation are several. If you'll bear with me, I 'll go through them.
1) The old 'First Cause' argument (was it Voltaire who proposed this, or am I mixing up my philosophers?).
2) The human soul. You may disagree with me, and if so, I feel we have no choice BUT to agree to disagree. But I feel that humans have a soul, something that exists separate of the matter and energy that makes up our corporeal forms. The soul or spirit or whatever you wish to call it cannot be measured or explained by purely scientific terms. As such, it cannot have come from our law-governed universe, but rather, is a direct creation of God (perhaps the only time since Creation that He intervened).
I have others but...it's late and my mind is on the fritz.
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"When mankind falls into conflict with nature, monsters are born."
-Professor Hayashida,
Godzilla 1985