To be honest, I was brought up to believe, taught a religion, and a lot of it stuck with me. I'm the first one to admit, once I was old enough to question and doubt parts of what I was taught, I did,...and I do not believe all that was written and preached. They say the bible is to be interpreted by all who read it in different ways, on your own level. I feel, like many others, that it at least gives me hope of a better place than where we are today, a reward for being a good person, and an everlasting life compared to one here filled with sickness and death and destruction. Also, I am a believer in science. It is very interesting to me, I am a believer in archeology, and ancient history, and very interested in the vast universe and the theory of evolution,.....it is wonderous, and amazing. I love reading about new discoveries, here on Earth as well. And part of me understands that the greatest minds on Earth, can not pin point how it all began. There are theories, like the big bang, but there are just as many questions about where did the elements that participated in the big bang come from?....that absence of an explanation about how things in general came to be....keeps the "God created everything" thought going. And I know, I'm intelligent to know that the next question is "But where did God come from?" I can't answer that, just like brilliant scientists can't explain with certainty where life started.
