Orodinn

First of all, I think it's stupid when people try to consolidate religion and science. The whole point is about finding which is right. If you believe some things just because of faith with no further backup, then it's not science anymore.

One thing's for sure, the answer does exist. Wether is can be understood by mere humans, let alone put into words on a message board is another question. The answer though obviously resides either in religion or science (is there any other possibilities?). I, for one, believe that humans with their science as their only tool won't ever be able get ahold of the truth and that we'll just philosophise our time has come.

I think believing in God is the easy solution, the thing people choose to believe in because they fail to find any other explanation. Still, if the theory is an existing God could answer all our questions, then I really couldn't say anything about it. The thing is, that theory just raises more questions than it answers. I'm not going into dept here, but believing in God means many things. Before jumping into the creation-of-the-universe theory, if you're to use God as your main backup point, then it'd be pretty useful to define what is God and what believing in God implies. I've yet to meet one single person who could tell me about his God theory without hundreds of flaws. Although right now science doesn't cover everything we'd like answered, at least, it's not flawed. I prefer to rely on philosophy.

The last thing I'd like to say is this. I think people are trying to concretize things to much. Giving humans attributes to God is something that I see too often. If he did create humans out of love, then he wouldn't be so perfect anymore. People are always trying to make things more concrete just so they can understand things better. They give meanings to their lives with illusions they themselves create. I don't ever think we'll find the true meaning of to our existence as I've stated earlier and I don't think we can hold the truth (as in we're way to limited in intelligence and in our conceptions). If we did, life wouldn't be meaningful anymore. People are often trying to place the creation of the universe in a timeline. Then again, that's just concretization. You have to realize that time, just like space, is only a dimension. Maybe that if we could see beyond time and space, we could have a better understanding of things. Unfortunately, our limited brain won't let that as in our conception, nothing exists without time or space.