I'm sure every opinion I could have on the subject has been covered from multiple angles, but here it goes anyway:
First, I don't believe in God, usually claim agnosticism to avoid listening to extremists, and figure that if there
is a deity of some kind governing the universe,
she goes by the name Lady Luck and rolls dice to decide everything.
Evolution is all but fact. One might argue that evolution could have been guided by a higher power, but I just don't buy it. I think most of us feel a presence, which we like to associate with something more than our singular existence. However, the voice in your head is your subconscious, the feeling you get when you lose yourself in something is Zen, a hardwired aspect of humanity, and mankind is more capable than we like to give ourselves credit for.
I have to agree with Ch'i in saying that anything written over a
millenia ago is simply too old to be taken literally. If you like to take the teachings of any religion or faith and respect them for preaching good ways to live, respecting your fellow man, and all that jazz, that's excellent. But don't claim that the reason you shouldn't steal or cheat on your wife or kill a man is because God frowns upon it. The reason you don't do those things is because as a society we need rules to govern ourselves. It's much easier to just tell children that someone even more important than Mommy and Daddy says we shouldn't do these things, so we don't do them. (I apologize if that comes across as condescending.)
The two things I like to cite most in this argument are the words of the remains of a lost deep-scace probe that collided with God in that episode of Futurama, "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." and the notion that Democritus was known as the "Laughing Philosopher" because he knew that the life of any man, perhaps even all men is less than a
blink in the grand scheme of things.
But that's just the opinion of some dumb college kid.
