I personally can't get my head around the idea of believing in a personal God..
There are thousands of Gods that have been created which contradict each other, and millions more yet to be created or discovered I'm sure, which causes the odds of your personal God being the right one to be astronomical. Yet people are willing to bet on just one God. They can't all exist, so why would people happily devote their life to a personal God. It's a mindset that I just can't get my head around.
The way I see it is that the sheer volume of personal Gods whose believers claim theirs is the one true God is enough reason to not believe in a personal God.
Furthermore, each personal God has to interact with the Universe, by definition. And yet I have never heard a creation story which matches up anywhere remotely near the evidence we have about our Universe.
For example, the abrahamic creation story tells us that the Universe was created in week in 4004BC. The volume of evidence that contradicts this date is phenomenal. We know the Earth has to be billions of years old, geographical, Biological, physical and chemical evidence just shows that the Earth has to be ancient (in the order of billions of years old) time and times again. Instantly the abrahamic creation story does not match up with the evidence we have.
This is just one example out of thousands I could pick. Similarly I could pick on the belief that the Earth is propped up by a giant tortoise, or that the Earth was created by flying noodles.
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Now I know that I've left the big gap of the generic creator. I'm a little tired as I've just got back from holiday, so all I'm going to say is that a creator who has infinite power cannot by definition create a finite Universe. Similarly a creator with Finite power would be measurable by our reasoning and logic, yet this has not happened.
Also, who created the creator, why would an omnipotent being trouble himself with just another biological race on a ball of rock out of trillions, *insert generic paradox here*, etc...
I'll get into it a little more tomorrow.
