BTW it is a big leap from saying ‘God Exists’ to saying ‘Jesus died for our sins and the only way to God is to be saved by his Grace and take him as your saviour’.

Oh, and nature is a brute process of colliding physical properties. Big freakin’ deal.

Final note:
We have sex drives, and behold, there is sex.

Maybe for some lucky bastards. The rest of us have to work for it.

We humans instinctively assume that love is a reality, that it is the only ideal worth living for and dying for. But nature seems to be an indifferent, loveless, brute process of colliding chemicals

And then the bizzarre conclsion

and so our ideals are reduced to reacting hormones.

The fact that life runs on a set of chemical reaction doesn’t mean we arent self aware, in fact he acknowledges our self awareness. Does that make our feelings of love and anger any less real? Why should it be less real because the capability of it is the result of trillions of reactions? The occurrence of it is still due to experience of events outside of our bodies.

The other part that is totally backwards
To illustrate, we hunger, and behold, there is food. We thirst, and behold, there is water. We have sex drives, and behold, there is sex

Thats 100% backwards. This presumption (and this is where I think this guy was never a skeptic) is that we came first and then the answer to our drives came along. That doesnt even make sense.

We don’t hunger and then there is food. The symbiosis of our species (or any species) with other living things on the planet is how we exist. Hunger is definitely a hormonal response, in fact we know the exact hormones that cause it.

Either our environment is congruous with these attributes–it renders them intelligible and answers them–or it does not.

This is another proposition with a predestined answer. of course our environment is congruous with our attributes! we have them because of our environment! THere are shirmp that live in the waters of the arctic north that die in labs if the water gets too warm. There are coral and anemonae at tremendous pressures in the marinara trench (near puerto rico) that fall apart when you bring them to the surface. All of these critters are successful in the environments because they are products of those environments.

I dont think this guy was ever skeptical of god. Just religion. This entire essay (perhaps I will read this book), is an argument from incredulity. He can’t believe that a sentient entity didnt make our needs met! We wouldn’t be here if that didn’t happen!

I can’t beleive that something that weighs close to a million pounds can fly through the air, and yet 747 hurl themselves high over my head every day.

There is so much more wrong with this… with its backwards reasoning….but alas, I must get back to work.