[MassiveTruck]

I have faith in God and a higher power but I think a lot of people have diluted Religion into cult worship these days. Some of the churches have made such a folly of dogma that it's cult like worship these days.

I believe that the areas of Religion that talk of spirit and conciousness, is God like while all the tradition, ceremony, rituals etc - are not really religious or God like.

I can't take a scientific view because Science doesn't have faith in itself (all critique, evaluation, counter critique and reasoning). I doubt Science in the nature that science is will never ever be happy or content because it questions everything.

One of the fascinating areas of Science, Physics and some of the recent studies on multiple big bangs and the balloon Universe theory actually relate to energy, matter and astronomical behaviour towards an intelligence life form. i.e. why doesn't the universe expand beyond it's state. There appears to be something pushing the Universe inwards - be they the energy from multiple big bangs (not possible because the resulting reaction would be outwards since there is nowhere to go inside).

Even in Science, they are only capable of studying and understanding things within their own school of though. Even PhD students and doctoral candidates or professors and lecturers only have time for their own sphere of thought (like cells, organs, the stratosphere - tiny areas) so how can you have faith in science when there is no real scientists or groups of scientists to counter argue the effects of faith. Even they only answey things on the basis of theory.

So is there a God? Well, we're a whole bunch of idiots merely pondering everything and slaves to games and stories (films, musics, consoles)... what is our progress while Religion has progressed towards civilising the world that not even democracy, economy or politics could do. It's the political motives that use Religion that create problems.