Ah, I had higher hopes for you, carpentaro, but now you're shaping up to be one of the forum's lazier apologists.
Are you aware that we've all met many of you before? You're saying nothing new, and certainly nothing compelling. I know you think the words you speak are quite profound, but we recognize them as empty, with nothing to substantiate them at all, no reason to believe in Christianity any more than Islam. In fact, there are many reasons not to believe in either, but I can tell from what you've said already that science isn't really your forte, and that you wouldn't understand what you were looking at if I shoved all the evidence in the world onto your desk.
Do you know that what you're saying is nearly indistinguishable from the unimaginative preaching that the stray Muslim here will try to deliver to us? I'd like to see what you all would have to say to each other. Since no one has any advantage over the other and you all use the same tricks and rhetoric, I'd imagine it would look like a cat batting at his reflection in the mirror.
"I know you think the words you speak are quite profound"
I was not going for profound. Sincere, authentic, heartfelt.
Science and self do not fill the void.
An individual relationship with God. Not an institutional application of a mandated belief system.
I'd say that that is quite different to what a " stray Muslim" might say.