The concept of gods, religion & supernatural arose to explain what was not yet understood.

Life is its own purpose, there is no need for any other reason for life. It"s like asking why the sky exists, or what is the purpose of electromagnetism. Assuming there is a God, how does that give life purpose if He will not explain what His purpose is? As to the question "who created us" that is an equally meaningless question. To paraphrase what I stated in the previous round, if we needed God to be created, then why didn"t God need someone/something to create him? If God could have arisen from nothing, then why could it not be true that the universe arose from nothing? I can"t respond to your argument about "miracles" without more specifics. I don"t know what "baby from the 5th floor" you are referring to, so it is impossible to answer that specific "miracle", but most so-called miracles are explained as mistaken perception, outright fiction or by sound scientific principles. "They refuse to understand it because they can"t understand it without faith" is simply a non-sequitur, since faith means acceptance without understanding. If you understand a phenomenon, there is no need for faith. Maybe this is a matter of definitions: faith (fāth) n. 2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. http://www.thefreedictionary.com... faith [feyth] noun 2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact. http://dictionary.reference.com... Full Definition of FAITH 2 a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust http://www.merriam-webster.com... "[A]ll religion[s] will say [the]y afterlife is Hell or heaven" is not true. Many believe in reincarnation, and even those that do have concepts roughly equivalent to "Hell or heaven" have far differing specifics. Some believe in limbo (where the souls of those who had no opportunity to know God are sent), or purgatory (a particularly Catholic doctrine in which all those who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven or the final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned). The Jewish religion has no uniformly accepted doctrine regarding the afterlife http://www.religionfacts.com... and although Islam"s doctrine regarding the afterlife generally agrees superficially with Christian doctrines, many of the specifics differ significantly http://www.religionfacts.com.... With regard to the book "Heaven is so Real" anyone can write a story but that doesn"t make it true. It "proves" nothing, except the writer"s ability to tell a story. Back to the original issue: people created gods, religion and the supernatural as attempts to explain what they did not understand. Everything that does exist can be explained, even if we do not yet have the knowledge to do so, and it is not wrong or unacceptable to acknowledge that there are things we do not understand. There is no real need to make up explanations for such things, only the need for patience until they can be explained properly.