A theist, not an athiest, by Laurence Evans.

So many are the arguments for God, who did Create, and so reasoned are the against.
Complicated, contorted, some fiercely finding no need,
Some with no care.

For those who dare, the effort to find belief can be great, so why do so many search?
Why Prophets with miraculous words for these faithful herds?
Why the need so innate?

Human limits are so, that no matter how cleverly we argue,
We just do not know the truth by reason, in favour of belief in God or disbelief.
Our very mortality is a clue to our few and limited capabilities.

By reverse engineering we can learn the technology of nature,
We can learn to unlearn ourselves,
And look beyond our senses, our souls, being.

Where are the stars for a blind man?
Where is the sun’s warmth on the skin for a deep ocean fish?
Where is there in this universe without reason.

The reasoning of a worm, a butterfly, a bee, a mouse, a bird . . .
Are all so logical, yet so limited to the creature’s form,
So too are we limited to forms, to generations.

That we cannot comprehend God, is a fundamental truth.
You cannot see him with eyes that comprehend distance,
With a mind stuck in time . . .

To glimpse Him, God Creator!
Dive through the sun
To the domain of light whirlpools above.

And swim with all your might beyond light,
Down a whirlpool to an existence
And out again beyond light.

To another existence,
Experience the consciousness of every individual.
The blossoming of a flower.

Be a bee, a bat, a dying man.
And perhaps you can then appreciate
How futile is the argument against God.

Our senses are simply too limited
For us to chance denial
And lose the eternal favour and the blessed flavour of worship!

So I choose God, for my conscious living is proof!
His Wisdom
His Guidance!

A good illustration of our faulty reasoning powers and inability to perceive beyond our limited senses can be seen in this short section by George Williams in his book, “Plan and Purpose in Nature:

“Consider the following pair of propositions: the sun exists to illuminate the surface of the Earth; We have eyes to enable us to make use of the sunlight. Both statements imply a cause-effect relationship. The sun is a cause of periodic brightness on the Earth's surface, and eyes cause vision in animals that have them. Both also imply something more: that the sun is there to fulfill a need for terrestrial illumination, and that we have eyes because we need to see. The point of this chapter is that the first of these further implications is false, or at least has no evidence in its support, and that the second is true, in a special and immensely important sense.

An examination of the Earth-sun system utterly fails to support the idea that the sun exists to serve the planet. The sun is about 150 million kilometers away, a distance of nearly 12,000 Earth diameters. The Earth is nearly spherical and about 12,600 kilometers in diameter. Why would something that exists to serve the Earth be so far away from it? And why would it be enormously larger than what it is there to serve?

The sun's diameter is about 100 times that of the Earth, its volume roughly a million times greater. The whole gigantic surface of the sun is brilliantly radiating in all directions. The Earth's small size and great distance enable it to intercept less than a billionth of the sun's light. The rest radiates out in other directions, with other bodies in the solar system also intercepting minuscule proportions of it. The efficiency of the sun's use of energy in illuminating the Earth is microscopic. Indeed, a detailed examination of the sun fails to disclose any features that relate specifically to the Earth.

What should we expect of a system really designed to illuminate the Earth? Given the constraint of having to use a single radiating sphere as the light source, we might want to economize on energy and materials by making the light source much smaller than the Earth but in a close circular orbit around it. This was the standard conception in antiquity, for example, the Greeks' solar chariot crossing the sky from east to west. Even though this system's efficiency might be a million times what we now have, it would still be low from an engineering perspective. Most of the light would miss the Earth and go off in other directions. With a precisely shaped and brightly polished reflector mounted behind the sun, we could make do with a much weaker source and achieve an efficiency to satisfy rather stringent engineering demands.

But why the constraint of a spherical light source radiating in all directions? Why not have the Earth surrounded by a grid of fluorescent tubes, or something analogous on a colossal scale, with the tubing backed up by precisely shaped reflectors? Or you could have the light produced by terrestrial objects, like the two brilliant Trees of Valinor that for long ages furnished all needed light in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth from leaves that shone from their undersides. Any such engineered light source would clearly show, by its obvious engineering, that lighting the Earth was its raison d'etre. The real Earth-sun system shows no such evidence of purposive engineering.

Williams’s whole argument is based on a single engineering assumption. Any engineering design will centre around economy and efficiency, especially energy efficiency, as, for us humans, available energy is a constraint. Engineers are trained to economise and use energy resources efficiently. So ingrained is this thinking that Williams attributes this quality to a God Creator Designer! Yet, for the Creator, there is no limit to available energy! Hey! This is THE CREATOR after all. Energy is no a limit. Such a Creator may have other considerations. Two that I can think of are:

A design requiring minimal maintenance;

A design that will stimulate the intellect of intelligent creatures.

The sun system does not require maintenance. Imagine the maintenance required on the grid of flourescent tubes that Williams proposes! If stars did not have the design we see in the sun, humans may have looked out at a black emptiness of space and had great difficulty trying to understand our very creation. The sun system therefore serves as an aid to enquiring minds to help them understand their own creation.