Debate: If evolution is taught in schools shouldn't creationism?
Side: Not on my watch!

"Do you mind sharing this 'exact opposite experience'? "My wording was a little poor. It wasn't really a singular experience but the current end result of several years of spiritual and scientific investigation. Explaining all of the details would be time consuming and boring, but here's a brief run down of the spiritual stances I've had in my life:Childhood: I was raised in a Christian household, but my parents' beliefs were very moderate and personal. It just wasn't a huge part of my upbringing and I didn't really think too much about it until my early teens, when my parents started becoming more active within a church. When I was 13, I realized that I didn't really believe in God or the Bible, and after a little negotiating, my parents allowed me to stay home on Sundays. High School: I started hanging out with a bunch of Wiccans and New Agers. I read numerous books on New Age Spirituality and participated in several rituals. I also started reading about quantum physics. QP theories can sometimes seem to affirm supernatural beliefs if you tilt your head and squint (metaphorically of course), so I saw it as scientific backing for my beliefs. This was a very powerful, emotional and social time for me and while I was in the thick of it I had experiences that seemed to be impossible to explain scientifically (aside from Quantum Physics, and even that was limited). I thought in a similar way to what you described: I felt there were forces and entities beyond the realm of science, planes of existence beyond our own. I believed in a soul. At about 19, I stopped being so active in these circles, as did most of my friends. I started studying psychology.20-23: I had been out of the "New Age Scene" for awhile and had been learning more about how the brain interprets the world around us, and some of the psychology behind belief. I started questioning some of the experiences I had had as a youth. I wondered if my wanting to believe had been affecting my judgments. I still felt that there was more to life than just chemicals and atoms, but I wasn't really sure how to analyze it anymore. Plus I wasn't as interested. I just started calling myself an agnostic and moved on to other interests.24-28: As it turns out, I still had some unfinished business in the spiritual department. Plus I was meeting people of almost every faith you can think of. I had dropped out of school years ago, my jobs were not very stimulating and my social life started winding down. So I started reading a lot, about all sorts of aspects of human nature: history, anthropology, psychology and quite a few books on various kinds of spirituality: Christian apologetics, more New Age stuff, mythologies from all over Europe, Asia and Native American beliefs, the basics of Hinduisms and so on. I also was able to actually talk to people who had these beliefs. One thing that started becoming more clear to me as time went on was that we can't really understand anything with clarity unless we can measure it.28-30: I got really interested in Buddhism, especially Zen. One thing I loved about it was that many Buddhist teachings affirmed what I was starting to realize. It seemed more logical, more cause and effect based than anything else I had looked into. Although many Buddhists do believe in Gods, its not actually required in the religion. Indeed, one can infer that the Buddha himself was rather critical of deities, and was trying to lean his teachings towards more personal and identifiable matters. 30-present: I've gotten myself back in school and am heavily studying science. All of what I've learned so far, and all I'm learning now has led me to Agnostic Atheism. I don't believe it is wise or honest to assert something as truth without evidence. This is not to say that God or other supernatural things don't exist, but they simply can't be quantified. So while I won't totally rule them out, I don't find it beneficial to work with such things, and I am growing quite antagonistic towards faith.Well, that was a bit more detailed than I had planned, but I hope it answers your question.