Your explanation sounds far too rational- I reject it on that basis 🙂

I wonder how many of the people who pursue the Intelligent Design concept and promote it as an alternative to scientific method have actually thought through their purpose. Does everyone really need to believe in God for the Rapture or whatever it is called to occur? I thought that there was a lot of unbeliever smiting and such going on in the whole second coming thing, which would imply a healthy dose of unbelievers to be …smitten 🙂

But then again, I don’t study this stuff. I have occasionally thought I should read the Bible, the Koran, and so forth, so I could understand where the thinking comes from. But it seems that so many influential religious people make stuff up as they go along: trying to take a scholarly view to understand the basis for their beliefs would, if I’m right, be pointless. That said, it has always seemed to me that there is a lot of wisdom in the Bible and (from what I’ve seen) the Koran- it is all the damn humans who choose to misinterpret or interpret literally only certain passages that screw things up so badly.