When human began to have an intelligent life [or not completely intelligent at all] some have became greedy about explaining all the things that the senses or the mind can perceive. This is from simple to complex organisms and from planets to galaxies or reality itself. Some want to include God as a basic necessity for reality to exist because of some irreducible complexity of nature but some always question its existence and some just forgot to put Him in their equation.

The people who want to explain reality are the scientists and/or philosophers and/or theologians. The first craft of people wants to explain reality with few postulates as possible but not questioning these postulates and most of them avoid postulating God. From these postulates and experiments and observe phenomena, they make statement and laws which they believe is universal until they have observe some objecting phenomena again. Thus it seems like it is never ending road but the right word is that it is force us to be open minded. Most of the time, the scientists remove God from the equation yet some may always think that it doesn't prove that there is no God. A strong theist may always ask "Who made these laws?". For me, this is equivalent for saying "Who made God?" and guess what the theist will answer. Thus one can always postulate a thing is always been there. The only difference of the two is that the universal laws are testable. The falling trees are in our very eye. We can hear them if they make a sound. The second one [God] is a Big Tree where no one can ever hear its sound when it falls and some even think that this tree doesn't exist at all. This is where the philosophers and/or theologians have something to say. Theologians and some philosophers have strong points and the allegory of the cave by Pluto will show it all. What the allegory and all they [philosophers and theologians] want to say is that what we see are just shadows of the real thing. Well most of the time, the shadows are even ignored.

When you browse the net, you will see that the strongest point of a theist is Creationism, Intelligent Design or irreducible complexity and other cousins of this. But I am most amazed by the fine tuning concept of the universe which just says that the universe is made for life to exist. Well the first one is already attack by evolution which is empowered by data and to remind you, don't ignore the shadows. Sadly, the fine tuning is also attack by randomness or probability and says that it just happens and as simply as that. After all even if the universe evolves this way it doesn't really mean that it is automatic that we can be here at all. Event A is not a direct consequence of event B. The theist can always have the alternative argument and you may say that God is the creator of chances but you also have the option of not questioning these chances as you have the option of not questioning the existence

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