@Bladestorm: You never considered viewing the universe itself as God then? That surely would make it intelligent enough to create life.
Also, when you take the vast size of the universe into consideration, along with how long it has existed... I'm talking about more than ten thousand years, I can't really see how it's such a miracle. The only reason I can think of for thinking that life is such a great miracle is because we can reason. The problem I have with your hypothesis is that you're asuming that there must be a reaning to our existence and that Things can't just happen by random chance. That's your choice though, and of course you're free to do so

I would love to know where you have gotten the idea of mutations always being bad from. Sure, some most likely haven't been the best ones, and have therefore been sorted out through the natural selection. The ones that mutated in a benefitial direction naturally had better chances of surviving. You keep talking about archeological and historical evidence that backs up your claims too, I can't recall you showing any of these.
Further more you're saying that evolution, and with that mutations, can't be observed directly. Do I even need to say anything here? To be honest I don't even know what to say, so I'll just throw you another link... Why should I say something others have already written so nicely: http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic … eationist/

Let's look at some of the stuff that Jesus said... This one is to a Roman dude, certainly not a Jew or Christian:
Matthew 8:5-13New International Version (NIV)
The Faith of the Centurion
5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help.6 “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.”
7 Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?”
8 The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.9 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
10 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.

And Again on the cross. Keep in mind that we have no idea what religion, if any, these criminals were leaning towards:
32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed.33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left.34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[c] And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
36 The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar37 and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.”
38 There was a written notice above him, which read: this is the king of the jews.
39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.[d]”
43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

And here, a last one, where it, to me, sounds like he's quite open to whatever form of way you choose to follow him as long as your intentions are good:
John 4New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

Since time along with Space was created at the beginning of the universe it really makes zero sense to say, that God existed eternally before that. Likewise it's pointless to say that he will whenever the universe is gone, since it will eliminate time as well.
As for the infinite chain I'll give you the big bounce, which is, I'll gladly admit that, still a hypothesis, but still one that people are looking into and researching on.

Well, even though I come at this from a scientific viewpoint I do not in fact believe that science can disprove the existence of God any more than Christians can prove the existence of God. I just do not think the evidence is strong enough to be certain one way or another. I am pretty sure if there were a 100% reliable way for testing and disproving the existence of God the very vocal atheists like Richard Dawkins would beat Christians over the head with it every chance they got.  I have read some of Richard Dawkins books and while interesting from an atheistic viewpoint they aren't full of evidence that can absolutely prove there is no God with any certainty. It is for that reason I feel the best answer to a question like this is an agnostic one. That is to say the evidence as it currently stands is uncertain, and the best answer is we don't know for sure one way or another as far as empirical evidence goes. What I can say is at the end of the day what we have to do as people is make an educated guess, a subjective opinion, on the matter based on what evidence we do have and what makes sense to us.

That said, it isn't that simple. Most people, including myself, do not make decisions on evidence or rationality alone. We are emotional beings with thoughts, feelings, and a personal sense of self which makes us decide matters like this from a more emotional viewpoint than a rational evidence based viewpoint.

For example, in this thread I have read a few messages that express the opinion that life without God is pointless. If science could disprove the existence of God that would make us worthless, make everything pointless, and totally meaningless. This is not the first time I have heard such arguments for God. They aren't the kind of arguments one can fight with evidence because those are subjective viewpoints based on a way a person feels, and what it would mean to that person if God were suddenly removed from their lives or could be proven to be false. Therefore that person's beliefs are justified from an emotional standpoint because he or she has a lot of their personal state of mind invested in that belief. Right, wrong, or otherwise it is an emotional attachment to the belief that can't be proven true or false based on evidence.
However, Christians aren't the only ones who make judgments based on emotion. I'm pretty sure the majority of agnostics, atheists, and humanists have emotional reasons for disbelieving in God. I can't speak for every single one of them, but I can speak for myself.

I have to say my deconversion, if we can call it that, really began when I was around age 7. When I was 7 I started having terrible headaches and began losing the sight in my left eye. Of course, everyone I knew friends, family, ministers, etc were all Christians and they did what Christians always do in such times of trouble. They encouraged me to keep the faith, to pray, and God would make things better. Instead of receiving some miraculous healing my medical condition worsened. In a few years I lost the sight in my right eye. No matter how much I prayed, my family prayed, or anyone else prayed my conditioned continued to get worse. The doctors couldn't do anything for me and God, if he existed, seemed to totally ignore me completely. I can remember nights praying for a healing, begging, pleading, and even crying and nothing ever came of it.

To make a long story short by the time I went to college and began to encounter agnostics, atheists, and other non-Christians they didn't exactly have to twist my arm to convince me there was no god. After all, I had been praying for years and years for some divine intervention with none forthcoming. It made rational sense to me if there was no god, that all I had been told was a lie, that he could not or would not heal me. He simply did not exist. It made much more sense than the various explanation my family, friends, and ministers would give me when I ask them why God wasn't healing me. All their answers just seemed like a bunch of excuses than explanations.

The bottom line here is this. I don't believe God exists because I was a believer, grew up a believer, but when the chips were down, when I really and truly needed help from God, he was not there. He didn't do anything for me. Why should I believe in or worship a God who can not or will not be there for someone in his or her greatest hour of need?

I realize my reasons are pretty subjective. They don't prove anything in a scientific sense. However, as far as personal proof goes I have all the evidence I need to pretty much conclude religion is a sham. If someone wants to prove me wrong let him or her give me my sight back, give me my hearing back, and correct everything else that is wrong with my failing body and then we can talk about the existence of God.

Sorry, minor correction. Jesus will return from a place that Allah has taken him to.