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Scientific theory does not explain the things I've experienced though and I've searched long and hard for explanations.

I did'nt wave it away, there are explanations that have made sense to me and they just happen to include God. Also, much of my view is based on things I've learned on my own. Experience is not a cop-out, its just that the more you know, the better you can understand things. It does not mean one can't understand without first experiencing.

Your opinion is your own. As is mine. I'm not going to change my views based on your thought that I may have been fooled. None of what you say need be believed either, and thats by your own words. Nobody has to believe anything anyone tells them. I don't need you to tell me what I've been saying all this time. Finding information and learning, and experimenting, experiencing...those are the things I've been saying so that people do not wave things away based on someones opinion such as your own. All those points have already been made so I don't see anymore reason we should speak on it.

See, that's the difference between science and religion. You won't change your views whether you're right or wrong.

Me? Give me a good reason, I'll change my views at the drop of a hat. It's all about the evidence, if someone can prove I'm wrong, I don't want to continue being wrong.

Would you prefer I said it was the difference between me and you then, rather than science and religion?

Additionally, I fear you have misunderstood my arguments. I was not trying to prove your beliefs wrong at any point. I was merely stating why I felt that some of your reasonings were inappropriate in a debate.

Perhaps, but there is little difference between me and you. The only difference is possibly that I'm sure of what I believe in because of the proof I've found. However, you may believe strongly in something of your own. In which case the difference is only in the conclusions we've reached.

Mayhap my reasonings were innapropriate for such a debate, but I was just giving my opinion. I said as much to RiRi and that I may have gone about it the wrong way. Even now I still search for more proof, and so far I have kept finding it and my belief is bolstered with each piece of evidence I find. To say it in another way, I don't want someone to prove the existence or non-existence of God to me. I feel it better if we get as much knowledge as possible and come to our own conclusions, however, if the answers we look for are to be found with either science or religion, or philosophy or simple fact...then we should take the reasonings of all of those and still come up with our own answer. That would be based on what knowledge we have, our lives are fairly long and so there is enough time for us to each reach an answer which satisfies us.

*...facepalm*

Yep, I can definitely tell that you're BSing.

To be honest, right now you're sounding less like the witty, confident person you're envisioning yourself to be and more like someone who has been pantsed attempting to convince clothed people that they are the ones who should feel foolish.

My reasoning's not going in circles. You just keep dismissing all of my points without actually invalidating or countering them as soon as I bring them up.

"Whether you like it or not, or if you call me thick-headed, you can't change my view with mockery or a thin string of logic. Prove me wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt if you want me to believe you. Show me exactly how the universe was made, the purpose of man, the meaning of sentience, why life exists."

...You do realize that everything you just said also applies to your own argument, right? I haven't heard any explanations from you, either.
Something doesn't have to have meaning in order to exist. Life exists because the raw materials and elemental forces on Earth resulted in the creation of primitive amino acids, which evolved into life.
I hope you're aware that a "thin string of logic" holds more water than absolutely no logic at all.
What's your definition of "logic," anyway? My ENTIRE ARGUMENT is solely based on logic. It's why I'm an ATHEIST. The very concept of God is illogical. Unless, of course, you intend to make me believe that your "proof" is so amazing and infallible that it invalidates the decades of research and theorizing performed by Dr. Stephen Hawking. And since he's the most renowned astrophysicist in the world while you're, uh, not, I think he knows what he's talking about.