Maher would want a god that is like your mother; cures all wounds (like killing the devil and removing all evil) that ails you but smoothers you? If I was god, and I am not because I do not believe in Him, I would have made man to feel sadness and death so they would know happiness and care. Why care about something that lives forever; why feel happiness when you have no clue what is opposing happiness?

So that answers that.

Jealousy would be my best godly measuring tool. I would call it my god-stick... see, like a yardstick but a corny pun!

The ice, water and steam analogy was good; if it stopped you in your tracks Maher. It was philosophical up your ass Maher... By a simpleton ye nuts rang out... And I heard no rebuke except "It is utter bullshit."

Besides that, I agree with Maher.

My degrees are in Psychology as well, and I can see some of the truth in what he says, but there is also a lot of true experimentation. The problem with disciplines like psychology is the things that are being studied have a high number of variables and its difficult or unethical to control those variables. You can isolate a particle and bombard with all kinds of tests to learn its properties, but do that with a child and suddenly you've gone too far. Ahem, as I was saying the science part in a lot of social science is just limited by our ability to measure the subject of our curiosity. This leads to a lot of supposition, which I don't think is a bad thing, when better measurement tools come along those suppositions can be tested or refined.