Buddhism is an obviously incorrect religion

Thank you Con, for presenting this challenge.Even though I'm not a Buddhist myself, I believe that Buddhism is probably the only religion that might be close to a real understanding metaphysics, and therefore, is by no means "obviously wrong".I also believe that you have misunderstood many concepts of Buddhism, and I'd like to point out that Buddhism have several branches (1), and they can differ quite a lot between each other, so what's true for one branch might be false for others, and this is the case of the concept of Naraka, which is not accepted by some Buddhist scholars, while others believe it's something incomprehensible and impossible to describe for those who live in the real world.You also claim that "science states that all religions are incorrect" based on the assumption that all religions were created after the appearance of human on Earth, and therefore, none of them are compatible to a world that is over 4 billion years old. This is a false assumption, the fact that religions emerged much after the world doesn't mean that they are wrong per se. The Buddhist religion is based on the concepts of karma and reincarnation, and none of them conflict with the scientific facts about the age of the universe (and by the way, the big bang and the formation of Earth were different events, separated by almost 10 billion years in the timeline of the universe)Now about Naraka, first it's one of the many reminiscents of Hinduism that have been incorporated in some branches of Buddhism. Buddhism emerged in a Hindu society, therefore many concepts of Hinduism were incorporated in the new religion just like many concepts of Judaism are found in Christianity, but it is by no means a core principle of Buddhism, and therefore doesn't have to be accepted by every Buddhists. You also make a false correlation of Naraka and the Christian hell, they are by no means equivalent, if anything Naraka would be closer to the idea of purgatory, once those who commit specially bad acts are sent to be punished and pay for their crimes before they meet their final destiny, which in Buddhism is an endless cycle of reincarnation that can only be stopped when the soul reaches Enlightenment, when it's sent to the Nirvana, where all the suffering will be extinguished.This in no way means that those who aren't Buddhists won't reincarnate, quite to the contrary: the destiny of every soul is to reincarnate successively, and only reaching Enlightenment can stop one from reincarnating again. In fact it could be said that the Naraka is not exactly a place where souls are sent, but rather, another world, where those who have a bad Karma (did bad things) will reincarnate to pay for their misdeeds, and after that, they'll reincarnate in our world again.Another thing I admire in Buddhism is that, in this religion, you fate doesn't depend on your beliefs, but solely on your actions. Therefore, all of those Greeks and Mesopotamians would be rewarded with a will entirely compatible to whether or not they were good independently of the fact that they didn't believe in Buddhism. In fact, you don't even have to be a Buddhist to achieve Enlightenment. All of this is possible because Buddhism is a non-theistic religion, and therefore, the Buddhist world doesn't depend on the figure of a divine creator or revelations by superior entities. In Buddhism you are the master of your own destiny.(1) http://en.wikipedia.org...(2) http://www.khandro.net...