[Flint]

Maybe I should clarify what my definition of God is.

It starts with my definition of intelligence, which is simply a high level of organization. Our cells are organized bits of stuff, that act and have an agenda. We are a chunk of these cells, that is capable of symbolic thought, etc. The earth is a mass of life forms, which ebbs and flows in an organization that we don't identify as intelligence simply because we can't understand it with our human brains any more than a bacteria can do algebra.

Keep going outward and outward, bigger and bigger, until you include everything that exists. That is also an organization, to which the same definition of intelligence applies (intelligence is organization). That is what I call God. God is the organization of everything that exists, and everything that exists has an organization that is exponentially more complex than we are able to comprehend. There is no fairy-tale aspect to this.

By trying to understand the parts of the universe that apply to us, we seek to catch a small glimpse of a small part of the organization of everything. This is what we are doing when we use the Scientific Method in an attempt to objectively analyze what we can observe. This is also what we are doing when we seek to find a spiritual path which puts us in harmony with the flow of nature. In both cases, we are blind to the actual truth, and use the best tools we have available for the context we are working within.

The fallacy of Atheism, to me, is that it only seeks to disprove God as is defined by an external source (correct me if I'm wrong). Hence, an apparent symbolic rebellion against the establishment, IE the green-hair comment.