I do not believe. A few reasons are:
It is pretty clear when you take a serious look at the enormity and complexity of the universe that humanity and Earth are insignificant and that no God created it for us. With every decade our knowledge grows of our own solar system and it is harder and harder to swallow the God theory and with each new scientific revelation God starts to look more like a Santa type of mythology for adults.
Humans in their current form are 200K years old. Civilization has existed for approximately 10K years. Agriculture was theoretically invented to support religion. Anthropologically speaking there is zero evidence for a single God which means all those billions who lived before us lived without that knowledge.
The Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years. Over the last billion or so there have been literally trillions of species of bacteria, plants, insects, amphibians, mammals etc almost all of which have gone extinct over multiple die offs after surviving hundreds of millions of years in some cases. Biologically speaking we humans are all essentially genetically linked to almost every mammal living or extinct on the planet. Biologically we can trace our ancestry back to the first invertebrate hundreds of millions of years ago to which we are all connected. You have to really ignore biology to believe we don't share a family tree with chimps and bonobos let alone literally every species on the planet.
Scientifically speaking prayer does not work and in clinical trials involving the recovery of heart attack patients, actually makes things slightly worse by a slim margin. For the sake of argument and to favour religion......results are basically 50/50. Hardcore prayer, like praying to regrow a lost limb never happens regardless of how pious the one doing the praying is. Hell, every person on the planet could pray for that limb to grow and it wouldn't. Little wonder peace on earth and what not isn't working out.
Those who are both educated and religious generally fail to see the idiocy of believing their god is real but the god(s) worshiped by Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and thousands of other cultures throughout time were not even though the people of the day believed as fervently and thoughtfully as they do today.
The most faithful of all religions commit terrible human atrocities. How barbaric were the early Christians? Look no further than the modern Islamists. Plenty of people have died at the hands of atheists but for flat out torture, punishment and as a rally cry to war, nothing has been quite so successful as religion.
I could go on but the crux is there is not a single shred of evidence that God exists but considerable evidence to counter the claims of the faithful of any religion.
It is pretty clear when you take a serious look at the enormity and complexity of the universe that humanity and Earth are insignificant and that no God created it for us. With every decade our knowledge grows of our own solar system and it is harder and harder to swallow the God theory and with each new scientific revelation God starts to look more like a Santa type of mythology for adults.
Humans in their current form are 200K years old. Civilization has existed for approximately 10K years. Agriculture was theoretically invented to support religion. Anthropologically speaking there is zero evidence for a single God which means all those billions who lived before us lived without that knowledge.
The Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years. Over the last billion or so there have been literally trillions of species of bacteria, plants, insects, amphibians, mammals etc almost all of which have gone extinct over multiple die offs after surviving hundreds of millions of years in some cases. Biologically speaking we humans are all essentially genetically linked to almost every mammal living or extinct on the planet. Biologically we can trace our ancestry back to the first invertebrate hundreds of millions of years ago to which we are all connected. You have to really ignore biology to believe we don't share a family tree with chimps and bonobos let alone literally every species on the planet.
Scientifically speaking prayer does not work and in clinical trials involving the recovery of heart attack patients, actually makes things slightly worse by a slim margin. For the sake of argument and to favour religion......results are basically 50/50. Hardcore prayer, like praying to regrow a lost limb never happens regardless of how pious the one doing the praying is. Hell, every person on the planet could pray for that limb to grow and it wouldn't. Little wonder peace on earth and what not isn't working out.
Those who are both educated and religious generally fail to see the idiocy of believing their god is real but the god(s) worshiped by Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and thousands of other cultures throughout time were not even though the people of the day believed as fervently and thoughtfully as they do today.
The most faithful of all religions commit terrible human atrocities. How barbaric were the early Christians? Look no further than the modern Islamists. Plenty of people have died at the hands of atheists but for flat out torture, punishment and as a rally cry to war, nothing has been quite so successful as religion.
I could go on but the crux is there is not a single shred of evidence that God exists but considerable evidence to counter the claims of the faithful of any religion.
