As for the religion causing war thing, I'd say that while religion is sometimes used as justification, it's usually employed as a cover for other causes, primarily the disparity between the rich and the poor, with the powerful rich misdirecting the woes of the poor onto scapegoats.
The whole argument "I'm fine with the Big bang but something must have created it, therefore there must be a God is both cyclic and makes unproven assumptions. If God created the big bang, who created God? A higher God? Is God self creating? Does God create rules? Scientific understanding of the Universe is far from complete and it may turn out the Universe is defined by an equation which can create itself in some way I clearly don't understand. If that were the case, I might personally be willing to call the equation itself God.
What I don't believe under any circumstances is that there's some God who created the Universe, but is somehow preoccupied with the forgotten, meaningless and trivial plights of a single species on a single planet in a single system in a single galaxy in what may be an infinitude of universes. In fact considering the abstract nature of the wider universe, I'd question if a creator would or could be concerned about any minor aspect of its creation.
As for God creating life, what we're finding in our labs about how the fundamental biochemical constructs of life can spontaneously self assemble (or at least with some lightening) is astounding.
And as for intelligence, well, when you have kids with a smart partner, you kind of hope your kids will be smarter again. You'd only do this if you believe in inheritance of capabilities, which forms the backbone of evolution. Dumb systems become smart ones, and when you have a trillion different systems, some of them are bound to be smart.
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