Jack on "God"

This was a response to an argument on Guardian Unlimited...

Well, "God" hasn't explained consciousness properly, so why accept that? Besides, who says we have to "explain" consciousness? Can't you just be happy with a mystery?

And from what I gather, scientists are actually on the threshold of creating life "in the lab".

And you want "the paranormal" on a scientific footing? Well, since "the paranormal" is a purely subjective phenomenon, I'd say that science doesn't have much chance with that at all. Science is already showing us that there's some kind of currently invisible interaction between observers and phenomena. At a quantum level all kinds of peculiar things seem to happen. The fact that we don't understand why yet isn't proof of the existence of God, any more than the meteorite that "Mohammed" saw was "a sign from God"

My "evidence" of the non-existence of God is the historical unveiling of absurd thinking. It's there throughout history - people not being able to grasp certain natural phenomena, and putting them down to "God", rather than just accepting them as mysteries.

We may never as a species understand all natural phenomena, or have a complete mastery of science. But that, again, doesn't prove the existence of "God", nor any "higher power" at all.

If "God" could be described as anything at all, it would be "all phenomena". But that doesn't mean it has any kind of will, nor compassion, nor consistency in any way, shape or form.