[Didymos Thomas]

Yah, you have that right in trumps. Still, I think most things, the life we have included, are easier to understand and deal with if we understand them.

I'm not trying to ridicule scientific understanding - both religion and science have their value, and sometimes science and religion can inform one another. My point is that science and religion have essentially different functions,

Yah, but many fictional characters have some ontogeny in fact.

We might say they have ontogeny, but this ontogeny would not be something a scientist could pursue as the character is not available for observation. Their ontogeny would be the invention of the author.

God has a developmental history - but that is the domain of the historian and archaeologist and people of this sort, not developmental psychologists and developmental biologists. God's ontogeny is not the subject of science.

If someone wants to understand God, perhaps they should start with the closest thing we know of, humans. Humans must be well understood before an understanding of God can be developed.

Absolutely, to understand God you have to understand humans - after all, God, like all concepts, is a human invention. And science sometimes brings information to the table that is useful in developing this understanding of man. But this scientific influence is a very minor aspect of religion, just religion is a very minor influence on the progress of science.

The key to this question has to do with events during re-combination. You might not think that that would say much about God, but it certainly does. God has the same problems that humans have and has solved many of them the same way that humans will have to.

I have no idea what you mean, but I'm open to considering the ideas.

Uh.... OK, but I thought it was.

Christianity is not a religious belief. Christianity encompasses a variety of religious beliefs; not all Christians share the same beliefs, and Christians do not necessarily share any beliefs. A Christian is simply someone who finds value in the teachings attributed to Jesus.

The probability that God or more likely Gods, exist...(plural dependant on THE other QUESTION)

How could you make such a projection? Based on what?

Nope. No metaphysics. That's a hard part for most people to understand. Meta-physics means magic to me or something that science can never describe. This isn't even that hard to understand, though the idea that God isn't interested in magic does throw most people.

Ah, you meant magic. I was refering to the branch of philosophy. Yeah, I never bought the magic in religion, either.

Tell ya what, I don't answer that question directly these days, but if you were use Google or MS Live Search to search for instructions for Lobster Hunting, the first result could lead you to a detailed answer. No one has found a flaw in the reasoning so far.

I highly doubt a page dedicated to hunting lobster on the west coast is going to show how to arrive at God through scientific exercise.