I hear you berry, and like I said, I fully support people in their religious beliefs. Believe me I've had multiple discussions over the years with my mom on the subject so I know how useless it is to argue religion. I think the reason I don't buy the whole religion thing is that firstly, I've had religion crammed down my throat since birth and have seen a lot of inconsistencies, and secondly it requires a person to live their live and have every action influenced by ideas that are based purely on faith, without having a shred of corroborating evidence to support these ideas. And I'm not trying to say that religious people are any less intelligent or anything like that. You, for example, seem to be very intelligent and articulate to me. I just don't buy it, pure and simple. But hey, I could be an idiot. That's always a possibility...
I can't prove darwins theories,
I can't prove einstiens theories,
I can't prove that if you dope silicone you end up with semi conductors.
I have text books, and I can observe what I think is empirical evidence, but I don't know...
I just trust what someone I give authority to (a professor) tells me.
a religious person just says
I just trust what someone I give authority to (a pastor) tells me.
and it's difficult to entirely disprove either theory where creation is concerned