Those responses are made in direct response to the theological arguments made by SAB, along the lines of "This is a contradiction". "No it isn't, because X". I

Those responses are made in direct response to the theological arguments made by SAB, along the lines of "This is a contradiction". "No it isn't, because X". If you're a hard empiricist, you will find nothing in the bible of interest to your life, save for historic/anthropological curiosity. There's no point in getting into such a discussion on Hacker News, interesting as that might be. But the specific thing you mentioned - as an omnipotent being, the very idea of our existence "has no point", let alone the order elementary building blocks of the universe came into existence (at least as described by bronze-age scribes). Be very careful with the "this has no reason to be this way" argument, it could very well be that you don't know the reason, or that there really isn't one.