Mmmm. So many thought-threads to pick at…A thread-rich environment….I’ll take:

Straw Man #1:
“ …rather than have [a president] who believes we are nothing more than a cosmic accident.” Yes, excellent point. Who wants a president who thinks we’re all just cosmic dust and random explosions and science reason logic publications peer-review? The fact that we’re here, thinking deep thoughts must mean that this couldn’t have happened accidentally, during four and a half billion years of ‘evolution’. Clearly, if we were made accidentally we would have accidental thoughts. So, it must have happened the other way, with the invisible, man-made, imagined, magical Creator. And so, also, the non-existent cosmic atheist president is a nitwit for thinking accident thoughts.

Deep Reflections:
“Whether Rick Perry would make a good president is something I am still pondering.
Understood! Let us know when you have Reached A Decision! Your Faithful Creationist World Awaits!

Unintended Humor:
I don’t think I’ve abandoned reason to reach that conclusion.
Well, now, let’s check your work. Careful explanations about the developing school of creationist thought; diplomatic portrayals of the logic of young v old: an avid, spongey purposefulness in sopping up whatever brain-puke is nearest (reason uninvited). Describing a non-existent entity/thought experiment as a ‘good and gracious God’: alliteration functioning as a ‘thought-stopper’ (environment hostile to reason). Preferring the ‘good’ God you just made up to that crappy, other God you just made up: consistency of magical thinking (reason hostile to environment). Correct, you did not abandon reason to reach your conclusion.