Religions are corruptions of man's interpretation of that which he does not understand...

Religion - the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices. To me, your opening argument is very broad and multi-dimensional. The interpretation of the word religion can be open to a multitude of factions. My question is this, and very simply stated, can you (or anyone) prove the existence or non-existence of a personal or worldly God? Now, when I refer to the term religion...I will use the word "God" because all religion is based on some form of spiritual diety. All things have a creator. The painting had an artist. The building had a contractor. The milk had the cow. The egg had the chicken. Very simple logic, but a very important ideal. Take the Earth. Was it not created? Therefore, does it not have a creator? A simple analogy: If I were to place all the pieces of a watch in a shoe box and shake it for one minute, would I open it to find a fully functioning watch? How about if I were to shake it for 1,000 years? A million years? The answer is simply no. How can one possibly think this happened with the world in which we live? If you are disputing this issue on belief alone, how can you prove science over religion? There are many things that science has proven and been proven wrong on. There are many things that faith has proven and been proven wrong on. Take the Bible, the Old Testament was written before the Son of God every graced this Earth. During Jesus' 33 years of life on Earth, He fulfilled 332 distinct prophecies that were fortold in the Bible. The mathematical chance of that happening in the lifetime of one man? 1/840,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. (That's ninety-seven zeroes!) What I believe governs my life. That is true for all human beings with the ability to think and process information. Human beings also have the inate ability to distinguish between right and wrong. Does this happen by chance? Believing in a God does not corrupt any faction of life. By living a life rooted in religion, I will live no longer, learn no less, and love no more than a person who does not believe. The difference then? I live for a greater good that is not of this life. If that is the case, then who are you (or anyone) to disagree when you yourself do not know the truth of what lies beyond death? If this world was not fighting over religious dominance, it would be fighting over clean water, food, equality, etc. Religion is the poor man's way of a scapegoat. If you believe that life is nothing more than science, then your saying and agreeing that your thoughts are not your own. With science, thoughts are nothing more than chemical reactions. Therefore, how can you trust anything you think? With religion, I live each day knowing that it is not my own. Does that mean that I will not challenge myself to do good deeds while on earth? No, in fact, it is the exact opposite. Religion is spiritual and takes on different forms in the inner workings of each individual. I also believe that we do not choose to follow God, He chooses us. Whether we listen to His call is our own undoing. Science is "Every attempt at human progress has been an attempt to overcome what was lost in the Fall." ~Randy Alcorn~ I would rather put my faith in a greater being with religion rather than put my faith in the science of another human being.