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Perhaps the single most successful theoretical construct we have is quantum mechanics. We have no idea how it works. One of the biggies in the field, Richard Feynman, says it's safe to say nobody understands it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for finding out as much as we possibly can about our universe. The funny part is, one principle of quantum mechanics is we can't know some of it.
I have no problem with the idea that we have to posit subjective religious belief with only indirect proof of whatever each belief espouses -- for example, the phenomena of life, or of subjective consciousness. We can examine the evidence for how it is that religious is a universal impulse, despite the "what if nobody's parents ever had a religion" counter. Stomp it out in the middle of a forest somewhere, and it'll come back a generation later. Why?
The answer can simply be that that's how our minds work. That doesn't prove the postulates of any given religion. It does make the exercise of challenging the religious for proof something of a fool's errand.
Sort of like trying to know all there is to know about a particle.
PFnV
Because we have a God sized hole in our lives that can only be truly filled by our creator.