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What feels right in your heart though is a result of your life experiences, if you had been raised in a different area of the world, what felt right would be different. Which is why what religion a person is is determined primarily by where they are.
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Possible. And yet all over the world people convert to various things. Christians in China, etc. I've taken a number of religious studies courses to expose myself to various religions. I like the philosophies of many. My being Christian is a result of my beleiving in Jesus Christ. Not because I don't think the others are wrong.
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Please don't take a lack of understanding of something and turn it into a shortcoming in that thing.
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I've also taken a number of courses in geology, archaeolgy, etc. I understand the theories quite well, thank-you. I also understand the reasons scientists say there are holes. I don't think it fills in the holes. If you beleive that the explaination is sufficient, good for you. Alas, 'good enough' doesn't mean it's correct.
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You say there is too much that science will never be able to explain.. never is a long time, that's a very bold claim, you should provide some support for that.
Where does science ever say "you'll just have to trust us"? If science doesn't know something it clearly says "I don't know". Are you uncomfortable with the answer "I don't know"?
Maybe that's a root cause of religion in some, the inability to deal with "I don't know" as an answer?
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There's a lot of stuff I don't know. There's a lot of stuff I don't care about as well. It doesn't bother me. You seem to have a lot of
faith that science will indeed eventually answer your questions. Again, it boils down to the same thing. For a very long time, scientist held fast to the indisputable truth that the earth was flat. They were proven wrong. There are things we know now that will be proven false in the future.
I never claimed to KNOW there's a God. I believe it. Science tells me to trust it when it says that it's explainations are sufficient to fill the gaps.