Did the gods (god) create us?

[thir]

There is also absolutely no evidence that the gods or the God does not exist.

No. there is only the certainty, or feeling, in one's own heart.

Many people believe that once they have explained somthing through science that the need to keep peity with the god or gods is gone.

I do not think that there is a need to be pious. Are the gods a threat?

But neither do I think that scientific explanations takes the wonder away, rather, it makes it even more wondrous :-)

The propogation of a belief in one god over many and the rise of this beief in the forms of Christianity, Islam, and others via Judism is the reason many people no longer worship the ancient gods of Rome, Greece, Egypt or Babylonia. Though oddly enough the oldest religion in the world still in common practice to date is poltheistic and has survived from ancient times in its original form thanks to the Hindus. Though the existence of seperatete entities was still incorperated into the previously mentioned monotheistic religions in other forms.

I am not as clear headed today as I would like to be..Do you mean that there is a developement from many gods towards one, and that this is sort of better?

Anyway I have heard this, and do not see the logic of it. But most especiallly monotheism lends itself so easily to dogmatism and abuse of power. It is no acident that many kings accepted Christianity so readily! (While in many cases the populations either hung back, or simply incoporated the new belief into already existing ones.)

How we began and how we end and what happens to us after are mysteries to many and have been all throughout human history. Those who lack faith in paticular are preturbed by them.

Perturbed, yes, nessarily scared. But is struck me, reading the book I mentioned before, that in medieval times most Christians were extremely scared of death, because of all the ideas of Hell thrown at them. I find this so unfair, thinking of all the other things they had to deal with in those times.

So powerful is this jealousy that the faithless feel the need to tell all people who wish to believe in somthing higher than themselves that any who do would be branded as deluded or stupid, even when such is not true. We who are faithful should not be defrauded by such hucksters claiming to know the answers with science alone.

You are right, name calling is not an argument.

Our time in this world may be fleeting and brief but our souls are as eternal as the stars from which we come.

As Thorne points out, the stuff we are made of comes from the stars, and it is ever re-used in eternal circulation.
It is an interesting question, as Leo9 talks about, if our minds/souls/energy does the same. After all, physics tells us that energy neither dies nor is created, only changes. Just like the rest.