The existence of a caring and active God is unlikely

I'm going to take your argument of wind blowing a sand dune into a castle and reformat it into something that is addressed by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion. This argument takes many forms, But Dawkins refers to it as the Boeing 747 argument. Essentially, If there is a watch, There must be a watchmaker, And if there is an ordered universe, There must be some kind of creator. How could a Boeing 747 be assembled from a bunch of pieces of scrap metal in a junkyard being blown about by a cyclone? Well Dawkins actually shows that this argument can be turned on it's head, And here's why: just briefly imagine the set of things which must be true in order for God to exist. You can't, Can you? That's because there are many places in the bible which state that God is so infinitely complex that a mortal man cannot begin to comprehend the complexity. Now let's compare this to the complexity of the first living organism ever to exist according to evolutionists: the amoeba, Or whatever simpler organism that existed beforehand. Essentially, Using the reformatted Boeing 747 argument, We're essentially putting the spontaneous existence of the most simple biological organism possible (which eventually branched off into further life) toe to toe with the existence of the most complex being imaginable. Additionally, The theory of evolution isn't one of "random assembly, " in the way that a Boeing 747 would be randomly assembled by a cyclone. Essentially, If xyz doesn't work, An organism avoids xyz, And thus evolves. There is evidence of this happening all across the world which we call micro-evolution, And macro-evolution is essentially just an uncountable number of micro-evolutions strung together. Let's take the metaphor of a guitar player. Many see evolution as some random person picking up a guitar and immediately popping out a sick jam with no prior experience. The more accurate view of this, However, Is a random person picking up a guitar, Not being able to play at first, And eventually accumulating some level of skill through trial and error. Let's contrast this to the theistic meta-narrative. If we looked at this with the metaphor of a guitar player, It's not someone picking up a guitar and popping out a sick jam without any prior experience, Either. Instead, It can be represented by the idea of someone having held the guitar for all of eternity, Having never began, And being able to play a guitar riff that is so complex that people can't even understand the chords. The fact stands that the things which must be true for a simple organism to branch out into a more complex organism are significantly less convoluted than the things which must be true for an infinitely complex being to have the ability to essentially speak something into existence. To summarize, Simple versus complex. As for the issue of testimony, I believe that it is very easy for large masses of people to be deluded about something. Take the mass hysteria in France in 1518 in which 400 separate people, For no apparent reason, With no apparent connection to one another, Literally danced in the streets until they died (https://en. Wikipedia. Org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518). There is no natural explanation for this mass hysteria, But you don't see people taking on a supernatural explanation either. It is entirely possible for large masses of people to experience, Or claim to experience, Things that are completely untrue and believe they experienced those things in earnest. This does not mean they legitimately happened. Were I to concede your point, However, I feel that it would be a pretty big jump in logic to conclude that, Since a large amount of people have claimed to experience God, There is an infinitely complex designer of the universe who brought man into existence from the dust for no apparent reason. I also have more to say, But I'll bring it up later and give the floor back to you :)