re: #219 Spare O’Lake

The Spaghetti Monster - even the flying version - does not address the ultimate question of whether a higher intelligence caused the Big Bang, or whether the very first unicellular bit of life on Earth was created or just happened by chance? I am forced to concede in all honesty that neither science nor religion has the proof of the answers to those questions, and therefore to allow for the possibility.

I’m sorry, but the burden of proof is on the people who use God as an explanation for the existence of the universe and the appearance of life on Earth. Otherwise, the creator of the universe could well be the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
As an addendum, there is a huge logical leap from “science has not yet been able to explain what sparked the Big Bang” to “therefore, God did it”.