CREED: I BELIEVE IN GOD (addendum)
After I posted the original of my last entry “I believe in God” someone asked me for a “reason”. This is what I came up with.

WHAT EVIDENCE GIVES ME CAUSE TO BELIEVE IN GOD?
1. I don't have enough faith NOT to.
I probably have a false understanding of evolutionary theory, but if it is correct to suggest that at some point in the distant past something, a big bang or otherwise, caused energy to go forth, and over eons of time substances, gasses, chemicals, elements or whatever, formed a primordial ooze out of which two somethings (or one something) began to "live" and all this without any "Causal" intelligence or "design" and that this new living thing, happened upon a system (while still only a single unit) to reproduce itself before "dying", meaning it had also in that span of time from the first spark have in place, having "evolved" all the mechanics of respiration, and nourishment. And I am talking here of only a plant like cell or whatever is smaller than that, not even daring to mention the complexities of the simplest "animal" cell.
I'm sorry, but to believe all this happened without First Cause, takes more faith in chance than I can muster.
So I concluded, "for the sake of argument" that a god exists to be the "First Cause"
2. Then I assume that the First Cause had a reason for bringing this thing (Creation) into being. Quite possibly several reasons, but the one that interests me, is the human race.
3. If this First Cause is more than an impersonal "Force" and in fact has "created" man in His image, and intended to communicate with the created, then I assume He will set about informing his creation about himself, and stating what his reason for creating man is.
4. I would then think that a record of His attempt at communication might possibly exist, and I could look at oral and written records through history and in every known culture past and present to see what exists and how they compare and/ or differ.
5. And once I had gotten to this stage I would try to apply the same criteria as to the trustworthiness and authenticity of the record as I would to any current news story, or to the existence of any historical (or mythical) personage, known to man.
6. And having been convinced that the claims made on behalf of this "god" were backed up by experience, I would go on "believing" until my experience showed me I was misinformed. 
7. A negative answer. "Whereas many people wonder, upon hearing that someone committed suicide 'Why did they do that?' I wonder why anyone who is not a believer does NOT commit suicide. "If that's all there is...?"

Coming back to the chair. Sure I "see" the chair, but why should seeing it make me a believer, if I didn't first of all have some knowledge, a little here, a little there, that taught me that interconnecting rods at right angles, perpendicularly and horizontally reinforced, with a suitably flat surface approximately 18 to 20 inches off the floor, would hold up a mass between 145 to 200 pounds?
One exercises "faith" every moment one breathes, and some of it based on some extremely "weird" assumptions, (for instance- that airplanes should take off, and stay airborne) but yet the same one finds it difficult to believe something as "rational" that a perfectly designed item came into being without a designer, or that an intelligent creature evolved intelligence without an intelligent "stimulator".

I am NOT a theologian, and I am NOT a scientist. But I am convinced, to use a book title from a well known "philosopher" of a few years back, that of God: "He is there, and He is not Silent". 
I am NOT trying to argue anyone into any position, I am sincerely trying to answer the question as to WHY *I* Believe, and I think I am giving MY reasons rather than what someone else says should be the "right" answer.