Right well I can't argue that because it's a nonsense argument which you can use to answer any question that stumps you. "We just can't grasp the knowledge he contains because it is too much for us to understand". Then why not create us with the ability to have the knowledge? Because god can do anything, so no, that's not a good argument.
Maybe our minds are strong enough, but we need to work towards the ultimate goal of understanding everything. It's not necessarily something that we can understand now. Possibly humans just aren't ready to understand everything, for the same reason you don't teach second-graders calculus. Perhaps there's some kind of greater understanding one receives in the afterlife, and time spent on earth is a sort of spiritual childhood.
I can't cover every single point or agrument made on this site. However, I want to point out that the author forms his own conclusions based on his views, not by being neutral.
One "contradiction," I will answer back to. First off, there are many views on the world being flooded. Some say it was just an area where the land was populated. Others say the whole world. If what history says is true, than there is a good chance that Mesopotamia was flooded and the people at the time have no migrated anywhere else. Mesopotamia has already had many flood issues with the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, so it would make sense if the survivors felt the whole world was flooded because that was their world.
If it was allegory, it was to show how G-d can take whomever he chooses, declare them holy or righteous, and cleanse [the created order] of its iniquity. Cleansing may have been needed to better the creation.
"really? Mohammad wrote the Korah, not G-d. All these other "holy," and "religion," books are man's examples of power control." Well I have an answer for this but I don't think you'd like it.
What is the answer to this then?
That ending kind of jumps around so I don't entirely get your point.
Who has searched the infinite universe to say that there IS a god? I'm not saying that there's not, because you're right I don't think it can be proven either way. The difference is, an ipod won't condemn you to hell for not getting found.
Except god would already know that adam and eve don't follow him, because he is all-knowing. Even before he made man he knew that this would happen. So he basically creates mankind already aware that they won't follow him, gets upset that they don't follow him, and as punishment gives us sin and hell, knowing full well that most of his people will end up there. He knew all this from the beginning, so why not tweak his creation so that they would follow him and lalala happily ever after.
Good question. Lets look at a relationship with a parent and a child. So the mom already knows her child lies all the time. Yet, she is willing to let her child know that she is going to trust her to not go to a party that has alcohol, drugs etc, but to go to her friends house like she said. Looking at this example shows that the mother is giving her child the free will to choose whether to obey or disobey her orders. That is what G-d did, in hopes that Adam and Eve would change their fate. To add to that, your fate can never be sealed to something because anything can change in the course of time. That was G-d's hope.