Is there a god or a God? I don't know but as a philosopher friend of mine said once, when on trial for minor crimes, "I am obsessed with the question". If there is then how do we begin to define It? Certainly, the gruff but kindly father of our childhood,, with his constant nagging and list making, will no longer suffice, nor will all the varied experimental/conceptual gods of our hippy and perhaps drug induced youth. As mature adults our God must too be mature. Is there a god gene. Time magazine thinks God is hard wired into our brain. Of course, that doesn't mean there is one just that we have to create one. That leads to the overwhelming question, Why do we need a god? How has our survival depended on our continued insistence that there is one? Is God dead? Is God religion? or are god and religion mutually exclusive? God IS, we create religion to try and formulate and define god, which is fruitless and impossible. Anything great enough to be my god, has to be beyond my comprehension and certainly none of the gods being defined now fit that bill. If I can articulate god then it isn't. Poetry and art come closest to being successful and at least they are pleasing. Science does to but they aren't trying to which makes them the closest in my book.