I am a Catholic, I believe in God. I do not know there is a God or what form he/she/it takes, but I believe. That is enough for me. I have not been indoctrinated, manipulated in any way. I have spent some of the last 41 years considering the arguement for and against. If I am wrong, I will have lead a good life, trying to help others and doing no harm. I am no angel, have a bad temper, but thats me. If I'm right, I will have lead a good life, trying to help others and doing no harm.
What has lead me to my decision? I have watched the world go by, have travelled all over it and have been fortunate to meet so many people of different views and beliefs. I look at the diversity of life and think how?
I am also fortunate to have had a good education, both academically and through life.
The following are the facts.
1.There was a huge explosion of energy and matter was and still is thrown away from source. Our universe is still expanding.
2.We now live on a rock that orbits a gas star.
Somewhere inbetween the seeds for almost 100 billion people that have lived or are living along with everything else was created. Was this a fluke or did it get help?
I believe in the theory of evolution and i belive that earth evolved over billions of years. I do not believe that we are here because of just circumstances.
Take a rock(earth), place it near a heat source(sun) and in a vacuum(space) and come back to it in 10 billion years. You will still have a rock near a heat source. There will be no life on board, no mini humans on it. Better scientists than me have proven that.
Are we alone, thats another question. Consider this. There are more celestial bodies in our universe than there are grains of sand on earth. In your mind think of images of beaches, sand dunes, deserts etc. Really consider it.
What are the odds of us been alone. If there is a God, then the odds are good, but if there is no God then there will be other life forms.
Therefore the next question is, if there are more life forms, some must be infinitely more advanced than ourselves. In the history of the known universe, we were formed in the last milisecond. So where are they?
If we can send man to the moon, and no silly replies that man wasn't there, since modern telescopes can see the debris, then something infinitely more advanced than ourselves could find us. We create noise and leave debris in the solar system.
However there are two many anomolies, the answer is we simply don't know.
I do know this though. In order to have an explosion ie the big bang, the following is required, accelerant, fuel, matter and something to light the match. If there is no God, and this piece of matter is sitting in space, How it it go bang?
Any scientists with theories, guess what, they are still theories