>>Ever since the dawn of man, man has created God(s) to explain what he doesn't understand. The Greeks, Romans, Norse, etc did it long before Christians came along with their one God to explain what he couldn't understand.
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>>You see science as man's attempt to explain, and I see God as man's attempt not to explain.
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>Very well put!
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>Religion, of course, all started thousands of years ago, when Man still believed in magic and couldn't explain stuff like where the wind comes from (gods with big puffy cheeks hanging over the oceans), electricity (gods chucking thunder bolts). Man's explanations all got written down with the interpretation then, and we're expected to adhere to the writings of these (comparitively, to us, ignorant) men. Remember that some of the Gospels were written hundreds of years after Christ's death, yet certain dialogues are remembered and reported verbatim. Was Lazarus raised from the dead or did he suffer from narcolepsy? Had they expected the large numbers for the Sermon on the Mount and secreted supplies ("This'll knock 'em dead!"). Who knows

"Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke