scienctology is just as real as any other religion. lol they made up stories about how people should live there lives. Just like any cult,why do they make stuff up? 

like the earth is only 6,000 years old? that's suppose to be real. 

I guess I wasn't sarcastic enough.

So, do i get money for answering this one right? :D

The question is not who wrote it but what were they smoking.

All three of those can be explained quite easily.

Why do birds fly south for the winter? Depends on whether you mean the physiology or the purpose. If you mean the purpose, then it's pretty obvious - they've adapted to relatively warm, mild climates, and when the weather gets too hot or too cold, they move to more temperate areas. If you mean the physiology and mechanism, it's even on wikipedia.

Why do birds know to sit on their eggs? That would be the same thing that enables fish to know how to swim on birth, or that enables human babies to know how to breathe - it's part of the nervous system, part of instinct.

As for why man "created" the very first religions, that's also quite simple to explain. Man saw rain, and asked "why is water falling from the sky?" With no knowledge of evaporation and condensation, man came to the conclusion that some deity must have put it there. When man saw the sun move through the sky and asked why, man didn't understand that it was a massive ball of plasma burning due to nuclear fusion, or that the earth was a sphere that rotated through space, and came up with stories about how some deity moves it through the heavens, or other similar stories. When man discovered fire, man didn't go "heavy friction is causing increasing temperature, which is triggering combustion and thus resulting in fire", they concluded that it was a gift from some deity. Each phenomenon that they couldn't explain was given a theological explanation, because it's the best that they could do.

However, as humanity grew in understanding, it became less necessary to have a god to explain each phenomenon; as such, the number of gods reduced, and stories were adjusted to suit. Eventually, there was no need for multiple gods, because understanding things like friction was relatively easy, leaving only the most existential of questions. Thus the formation of monotheistic religions.

Science has superseded that, though. Great thinkers have realised that religion cannot solve the question of "why", because it just introduces new ones. God created the universe? So who created god? God has always existed? Why can't the universe have always existed? You get what I mean, of course. And so, in modern times, religion has broken into two groups.

The first group is the personal deity - those who believe that god is within them, helping them with their lives. While I disagree with those within this group, I fully respect their belief. The second group is the hyper-organised religion - where there's this idea that the job of believers is to force their beliefs on everyone else. And sadly, a few such religions have succeeded in certain places. Christianity has forced itself on quite a few nations. Islam has forced itself upon others. Judaism is pretty much forced on Israelis. There are no doubt others, too.

Anyway, even if none of the three things you mentioned had been explained, that would not be equivalent to saying that they could not be explained - that is, it's a huge leap from "we don't have an explanation" to "no explanation can exist". Because throughout history every mystery ever solved has turned out to be... not magic (thank you, Tim Minchin, for those words).

Food for thought.

And this proves just how unknowledgeable some of the people on online forums are.

Good post.

Why would I be?

The Quran's origin is no where near as clear as shakespear given the quran was supposedly written about 900 years before shakespear wrote his great works.

I find it hard to believe that he was able to read but not write given that makes absolutely no sense and he was just some madman speaking whatever thought;s popped into his delusional head and other people wrote these things down resulting in multiple quran untill they were one day compiled to avoid needless fighting over what the Quran said (which given the current middle east failed tremendously) and that lead to a book that contain's multiple contradiction's.

If part of the Quran is wrong than that leaves the strong possibility that all of it was wrong.

Just go to  http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/ and you will see how many errors are in the Quran. Just because the Quran was consistent over time does not mean it wasnt consistently wrong.

And to the point that the story of why god only told one man all of what was in the Quran being a story for another day is simply you not having an answer that does not sound nonsensical and cruel on god's part. Not to mention that it took him a while to get the message out there considering how long people had been in existence.

And yes Muhammad did use force to spread islam and was married to a six year old and had sex with her at age nine. 

There is a reason why it seems unlikely he did not write it alone because he simply did not do it alone.

I also find the fact that you believe the Quran in spite of contradictions and the evil god of the Quran who supposedly taunt's people by giving them only one prophet then sending no message since incredibly stupid. 

I can gaurantee you most christian's and muslim's have not had a real good look through their holy book's because if they hd they woul have seen the long list of internal and external contradiction's with themselves and scientific fact's. You really think that if more people had a godlook at your holy book they would not find themselves embarrassed and disgusted by the god's proclaimed within?

Muslim's probably should have re-written the Quran given how many absurd thing's are kept within it that most people would see as a poorly written piece of fiction. A book that a ritten 1300 year's ago is not proof of the existence of god and most people no believe in it for three reason's

1: Their parent's where folower's of that religion 

2: Their afraid of death and can;t accept a world without god

3: Their culture is unaccepting of athiesm ranging from exclusion all the way to death for apostacy. 

Im guessing that you were simply brought up being taught islam and was imprinted upon you as a child when you were most vulnerable. If you were brought up christian you would be here ingoring the inconsistancy's of the bible and pointing out those of the Quran. 

Check out http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/ for a list of contradiction's in the Quran with an open mind.