Ok so I can't show you what god looks like, I can't prove that Mary existed, and I can't prove anything in the bible basically. A world full of people believe the book word for word they take it quite literally and not as a life lesson which it was originally intended as. But I have no empirical evidence to support any of the claims in the bible, there is a nearly endless list of different ways just that one book as been interpreted. Forget about all the other flavors of religion! How can they all be right? How can any one of them be right? They are not they are just examples to help the less moral people...the people who it takes a bit longer to get stuff...the weak people that just don't have the time or capicity to think about it all. So much easier to have someone else do all your thinking for you. But that's no way to live. That and the fact none of it can be proved is the reason I'm an Agnostic/Atheist.
I don't need a made up entity to make me a moral person. All you need is the Golden Rule. Don't do crap to other people that you wouldn't want them doing to you.
I like science because a scientist can create an experiment that anyone that has the means can recreate themselves. This may shock you all, but I don't believe that anything is absolute fact. There are kind of grades of believing in facts, so yes from that standpoint science is certainly sort of belief at some levels in some instances. Anything that can happen will happen, and even some things that we thought couldn't happen before, do sometimes happen. What I look for is things that can be observed, tested and proven my myself or anyone one else that chooses to do it. These things we are referring to as fact and empirical evidence, is only considered that, because it can and has been tested by countless other people. All using the same scientific processes, scientists can test, record results, and time and time again come up with the same numbers, then you can be content to live your life knowing that thing as fact, keeping in mind that the reasons that make something a fact could change, as we learn more about how the world works, but observations, testing, and repeating results are very hard to argue with on a day to day basis.
I've already read some of the book and I still see nothing I would even come close to considering evidence. And I have yet to have any of you show me any evidence that what I'm seeing with my own eyes is a blimp or a hologram or whatever crazy crap you all have to offer next with no proof or way of testing what you tell us. That means you are really saying nothing.
So anyone else wanna give it a shot?