The belief in God is not illogical. What is illogical is the way humans have portrayed God. The attributes we have given God.

From the time humanity first obtained the ability to reason, we have looked for the answers to the question of our origin and purpose. Sense before the written word, stories were made of gods and the powers that be, in an effort to come to this understanding.

Ten thousand years ago humanity had no understanding of the forces of nature. But yet, because of our desire to understand and to know, we came to conclusions based on what we did know. These understandings took many forms, shaped by culture and the environments people were exposed to.

Now humanity has come to understand the workings of the atom and the underlying forces of nature. Yet people cling to ideas based on archaic wisdom. People all over the world think God to be a spirit separate from the universe, when in fact God is the universe.

It is now thought that there may be 11 dimensions of time and space. If this is found to be true, then God is not only the universe, God is the multi-verse.

It is believed that this universe was created in what has been called the "big bang". Even now people strive to understand what was there at the instant of creation using tools like the Large Hadron Collider. Before this big bang it is said there was nothing. No time. No space. Even this absence of time and space was God.

People need to expand their mind to be able to understand the true nature of God. People should stop giving God human attributes.

Some notions put forth in days of old are correct. Take the ten commandments for instants. These laws concerning behavior are correct and right. They have withstood the test of time. Take the one that says, we should make no graven images. This is true because a stone, gold or wood figure of a supposed god has no power. It is not an all encompassing power that can create. It is merely a failed idea by one who seeks to understand.

Some ideas of creation and God were partly right. They were partly right because our understanding of the universe was incomplete. Take the book of Genesis. It is said there, we were created from the dust of the earth. This is correct. We were made of the stuff of the earth and are a part of it, and will one day return to it. Then in the same book it is said we were cast out of the Garden of Eden for eating from the tree of knowledge. In a way this is true too. Let me explain.

In our remote past, our ancestors lived like the animals. Day by day, hand to mouth. We wholly depended on what nature provided as nature provided it. Then one day we departed from that. We had a spark that allowed us to craft tools and to control fire. When that happened, we started to depend on our intellect to survive. That was the day we were metaphorically cast from the garden.

This Garden of Eden still exists, but it is not a place. It is a state of being. You can still see the garden if you're willing to open your mind. Look at the birds and the other creatures. They depend on what nature provides, where they can find it. They are living in the garden.

So is believing in God illogical? I think not. What is illogical is the manner in which we believe in God. :hippy: