I'm an engineer. I like to have all the answers, have all the calculations come out a verifiable answer. So the scientist in me wants proof, but the one thing that science doesn't prove is why humans were the only kind of animal to evolve to the level we have. Were we primates not too long ago? If so, how come we haven't seen the current primates deviate into a more evolved form like humans since the initial evolution?
On a grander scale, we know what creates stars even planets to an extent. What created the universe? Was is always there? Where did matter come from if one day the universe just existed? All questions that I believe science will never answer.
In comes faith. What created the "Big Bang"? Something did, and could we call that something God? I believe so. Do I believe it's Alanis Morrisette : ) (Dogma)? Not really, but something somewhere had to create existence as we know it. So there we have it, a "scientist" who believes in God.
Then there is the topic of religion. And that my friends is an entirely different story. How many religions exist on this planet? Plenty, and they all vary. Do I believe in one or the other? Not specifically (Although when I did go to church it was Episcopal). I believe we are all worshiping the same God, the same creator of everything. People just devised different ways of representing that God. Organized religion on the other hand very quickly devolved into a means for the powerful to control the many. It has been abused and misused so often through history that it has come to disappoint me. I don't believe any one religion is right, nor wrong. I just believe too many people, put too much stock in every word that is written in their holy texts.
There are good lessons to be learned from each of the holy scriptures, but there are also contradictions and bad portions of each. For example did the Catholic church devise the Crusades for God? No, they did it to solve the problem of too many bored noble children wreaking havoc in Europe. Better to send them to a foreign land, not to mention the power it gave the church. Now the current day example of the Middle East. Are they killing, terrorizing, and mutilating civilians for Allah? No, they are doing it for power. They're lives were disrupted by Western powers who took away their power and they want it back. I won't go into the debate of whether or not its our fault or theirs. The point is, organized religion has been the excuse for some of the world's greatest atrocities.
So in the end, I believe there is a creator, a God. I don't believe this is how he/she/it wanted us to show our faith, by killing others. Like I said, I'm not trying to say all people who are part of organized religion are evil, nor do they all support what has happened in the name of their or other religions. I just feel that religion itself, although perhaps designed to give people faith, happiness, and enlightenment, has done far more harm than good.