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or cats or fill in the blank with whatever animal you want, is that if we were to try to communicate with chimps with things that they cannot even begin to understand, they are incapable of understanding it. but yes, we could do things to "dumb it down" as you say to try to establish some base level of communication. and i guess thats where i make my analogy.
for us to assume that because we have a "feeling", or because we have had things happen in our lives that we cannot explain, therefore a higher being is responsible, is a bit premature. a being that we can by no measure that we currently have detect.
to me it seems like WE are that dumbed down species that perceives itself as able to communicate with its superior. and i guess if you are saying that a persons perceptions and feelings are proof that something is listening and giving us signs, then i might say that your definition and my definition of proof dont match up. we have a much greater deal of knowledge about our brain than we did 100 years ago, heck even 30 years ago, but much of it is still a complete mystery. and without fully understanding how our own mind works, and the tricks it may or may not be playing on itself, i think its quite premature to suggest that those feelings and seemingly answered prayers are directly attributed to god.
i dont think we understand ourselves very well, let alone a being that transcends into a level that is literally incomprehensible to our feeble little minds. as highly as we think of ourselves, and as close to god as some of us think human beings are, (i mean the bible itself states that god chose to make us in his own image, and many people are in line with that kind of thinking) to me we are still the chimpanzee trying to absorb that lesson on particle physics. just on a totally different level man.
so to wrap it up, there may be a god, there might not be, but in my opinion even if there is, how the heck would we even begin to know it.