Dear Religion, While you were debating what chicken sandwiches were okay to eat,...

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110. Except artists produce stuff of aesthetic and intellectual value

Religion does not - some of its themes may give subject matter to those artists sure, but I'm certain that if there were no religion, Michaelangelo still woulda done some pretty awesome sculpture.

And no, I'm not going to repeat that; if god exists, then science certainly could prove it. Sadly, while we have evidence of supersubatomic particles that can apparently travel through time and be in two places at once, we have yet to find even a smidgeon of evidence supporting any religion's claims of divine beings. And c'mon, twenty thousand years of human belief, that's a lot of gods and spirits, not even counting the potential for those "known" to potential extraterrestrial civilizations! Not one hint. Not a smidge.

Imagine that. We can toss a telescope into the sky and see light from fourteen billion light-years away, that shows us a near-snapshot of what the universe looked like at the moment of the big bang. But we can't find anything that would even hint at the ecistence of a divine being controlling it all.

Similarly we have no evidence of snake-headed women who can turn you to stone with a glance, or of shapeshifting pygmies with backwards feet in the Brazilian dry forests.

Why do you suppose that is?