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RealThing, your above post mentions evolution vs creation. Basicly one is based on scientific research and years of evaluation that is always subject to change and progress as improvements are made in various science disciplines. Yes, evolution is a theory in general, but almost all the scientific community around the world accept it as fact. The other, creation, is based on faith and the supernatural, or magic, which is okay if all the proof you need is words written 2,000+ years ago by shepherds and other people of the ancient middle eastern world.
I don't think anyone really knows the complete answer to how we got here or what happens afterwards. I tend to lean toward the scientific answer, but I think a large majority of people, in various religions around the world, feel it's safer to apply Pascal's Wager as an insurance policy, which says God may exist or may not exist but it is safer to take the position that He does exist because if He doesn't and there's nothing after we die then we really have't lost anything....but if he does exist then you lose everything. But the question then leads us to which of all the world's religions is the God that is the right one.
And the biggest question of all: If God created the universe and everything in it, who created God?