If a god exist, he is a terrible communicator.

Pro failed to address Con's very important point on the prerequisite for communication requires the source and the recipient sharing the same language. That is why we have schools, learning to communicate. On the topic of schools, Pro gave a great “Illustration” of a classroom without a human instructor. Pro failed to see the lack of a human instructor defaults to God's handwriting instructions, an imbedded bio-program, the root of all communication, found throughout life. This bio-program is simply once alive, “Life, must have the freedom (“Liberty”), in “the pursuit of” survival; otherwise, there is no life. Survival is a form of positive-feedback and a prerequisite for human “Happiness. ” Hence, Thomas Jefferson's discovery, which he declared “self-evident” and used the labeled Unalienable Rights of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. ” Life's Unalienable Rights is the seed to inter-specie communication. This communication is apparent when we hear the cries from the screeching chirps within a nest, to the whimpering pups in a den, to the cries of a human infant along with the feelings those sounds evoke; the sounds throughout the tree of life (inter-specie communication not covered in Pro's “10 characteristics”). In many species, a newborn cries instinctively, elevating its cry to a scream when something is wrong as in negative-feedback. Among humans, the parent is instinctively annoyed or alarmed by this cry and, in distress, tries to seek mutual Happiness by catering to the infant's desires. In contrast, there is something quite pleasant about the sight of a smiling infant, as it naturally communicates Happiness. The behavioral difference between a smile and a cry are the tenets of right (positive-feedback) and wrong (negative-feedback), the primitives of Morality. In Pro's example, one could find students forming groups based on their interest---positive-feedback, relative to geometry, calculus, etc. Let's expand on Pro's example: Morality is an outgrowth of life's Unalienable Rights in group formation. The binary values of morality is Right (moral) or Wrong (immoral). The objective of morality is doing Right keeping a group alive. That is, when two or more humans form a group, the group becomes alive. The life of the group is sustained through goodwill and kindness leads to a mutual moral respect for embracing the Unalienable Rights of the members within the group. Goodwill promotes order, stability, and harmony through the pursuit of group-wide positive feedback. Over time, group-wide positive feedback is the genesis of traditions, social values, beliefs, language, etc. , the norms of society. These norms are tried and tested, and conservatively pass down from one generation to the next establishing its culture. A moral order guides an individual in the prudent exercise of judgment relative to those norms, going with the social flow minimizing civil resistance (Constructal Law). The individual in a civil society strives, albeit imperfectly, to be virtuous; that is, restrained, ethical, and honorable, respecting and embracing the Unalienable Rights of others relative to those tested norms. The objective of morality is to keep a group alive, is the evolution of traditions, social values, beliefs, language, etc, the norms of society. In Pro's example, group formation of geometry, calculus, etc, is a "microcosm" not only of religion according to Pro, but the norms of society including the language of that society so it too can communicate. The empirical evidence of the diversity of language and social norms throughout history and today demonstrates the universality of God's language, a thread that runs through the tapestry of humanity and life, the genesis of communication. Morality simply refers to the binary state of Right or Wrong. These states generate mutual positive- or negative-feedback, relative to the Unalienable Rights of another. Mutual positive-feedback, in group creation, is found throughout the spectrum of life in the beneficial formation in schools of fish, flocks of birds, packs of wolves, tribes of humans, and in addition, inter-specie relationships, such as those between humans and their pets. Morality is a manifestation of communication and is an outgrowth of life's Unalienable Rights, which is an outgrowth of the Constructal Law, which is an outgrowth of the Laws of Thermodynamics; part of the physical Laws of Nature, the handwriting of God. We humans are beginning to understand God's handwriting through the scientific method. For example, the US form of governance (US Constitution) a design from the discovery of Jefferson's Unalienable Rights sparked a social experiment within a short period of 200-years, changed the world like no other society in recorded history, through the fruits of technology, food production, and medicine, the stables of human existence throughout the world today. A compelling example of what happens when our Unalienable Rights are morally free to flow, having minimal resistance (Constructal Law), within the awesome machinery of nature. The message in God's handwriting (the source) is a communique to humanity (the recipient) about the evolutionary road to utopia. The title of this debate is, “If a god exist, he is a terrible communicator. ” It is not a debate whether a God exist or not, it is a debate over, if there is a God, than the Laws of Nature are simply the handwriting of God. Con's position is, the Laws of Nature is a miraculous form of communication, in addition to the creation of all life throughout the Cosmos. Life communicates on many different levels, from a single living cell to us humans and beyond, in the evolution of life coming to learn the language of God. In addition to the Laws of Nature, DNA is a message from God in a living bottle as us humans are just beginning to learn the syntax of this language, while harnessing the necessary wisdom to be responsible stewards of such knowledge. The evolution of inter-specie communication with God's nature is a function of the evolution of knowledge and wisdom of the recipient, how could it be otherwise? On the other hand, Pro took the position on how God must behave in order to communicate with us humans; otherwise, God is a “terrible communicator. ” Too bad Pro is trap in the narrow scope of human philosophy of what the proper “10 characteristics . .. of a good communicator” is, and Pro demands such behavior from God, convoluted with man's written scriptures about God throughout the dark ages and before. Using such simple logic, it is easy to declare, “. .. , he [God] is a terrible communicator. ”