> To refute a claim you never made (but that I have seen advanced enough to want to make an attempt at a rebuttal here ;-) ), the idea that all humans have a natural "need" to worship something, or that all societies believe in some form of diety, somehow proves that some such diety must exist, is bad logic at best. Even a universal belief in something doesn't make it true in the absense of other evidence. And in truth, that "need" is much better explained as simply the result of human nature, the natural thought process of a thinking mammal groping around in a harsh world.
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> -- Dave

Eh, close, but the argument is not primarily a logical argument. It's a biological argument. Saying it's part of human nature is whole point. The universal desire for food doesn't prove logically that food exists. Biologically, there's no other explanation for it. There just aren't innate desires that have no fulfillment. Humans have a universal desire for the Infinite, though they express it in a variety of ways, which strongly suggests as a matter of biology that there ought to be some way to get ahold of it.

If you know of a reply to this version, I'd like to see it.

-Gabe