Do you believe in God? Why/Why not?

[Runa216]

There are entirely too many levels to why I don't believe in God.

1 - There's no evidence, only faith (which is the belief in something without evidence)
2 - I generally don't trust people, so when it comes down to faith vs facts, I literally always go on the side of facts.
3 - According to everything we've learned, virtually everything in the bible is physically impossible or proven wrong (young-earth?)
4 - You can't just say 'God is all-knowing' as a blanket statement to explain away anything that breaks the laws of physics or logic.
5 - 99% of all 'unexplained phenomena' have completely rational explanations
6 - Again, you can't just say 'yeah, well god did it' as a blanket statement to take credit for everything
7 - Religion is a scam. god may very well be real, but Religion is bad. Causes wars, pushes outdated values, actively campaigns against progress.
8 - There are literally thousands of religions, many of them WILDLY different from one another. NOTHING in science or history leans more towards one or another religion.
9 - Even within each of those thousands of religions, there's a virtually infinite number of ways to interpret them
10 - All of this is nebulous and ethereal, yet somehow every religious person feels it's rigid and unflappable.
11 - Science is hard and proven and consistent, yet willing to change as more evidence is unveiled.

I'm always going to go with the belief system that can offer real answers, accepts when it doesn't know something, works to learn more and expand its knowledge, and can be proven. I will never go with a belief system that is completely at odds with what we observe and can prove, has many followers that refuse to change with the times or update its knowledge based on provable facts, and is just nebulous enough that any of its followers can chose to interpret it as they see fit while also using that nebulous nature to explain away anything they don't like or don't understand or has been proven wrong.

One of these belief systems deserves your respect. One of them does not. I chose science. There very well may be a god, but I'm quite certain that the concept of 'God' was invented by humans to serve as an explanation for that which we could not understand, and because it's so widespread, it clung to civilization long past its use-by date. What we have with religion is tradition trumping progress, and that's actively bad.

If there is a god, I guarantee no one earth religion got it right. Almost a 0% chance of that being the case.