The real religion?

[robvalue]

Rob, let's set aside the monotheistic Christian God of the bible.  As I wholeheartedly agree that all "religions" make absurd claims.
Many here ask for evidence or a claim.

 I will claim that a god, that is personable, intelligent, and powerful by nature, is the best rational explanation for the existence of the observable universe.  

The way the 4 fundamental laws of  physics interact to sustain our planets, stars and the observable universe.  That our observable universe appears to have a beginning and is not eternal.   That life, DNA, the human genome, the mind, consciousness, the ability to reason and perform scientific evaluation, nature, and how as we humans differ from animals, I would claim that these are all very complex and intricate mechanisms that point to a designer or creator.

From a logical perspective it seems to me that a creator or by design is a more rational and acceptable hypothesis than the perspective that the universe just happened or made itself from a foamy sea of quarks vibration and gravity, that life just happened from a collection of amino acids, and that evolution just happened to produce DNA, our unique human consciousness, Beethoven, and the Manchester United FC.

It's no explanation at all, it's just a word. It gives us no new information, no mechanism, nothing to test and gives no practical applications. It invites as many questions as it attempts to answer. I see no reason why it's rational either. It simply requires further assumptions that aren't necessary. This appears to be an argument from incredulity: you can't imagine it happening any other way. I needn't even suggest an alternative to point out that this is an untestable hypothesis and therefor useless.

But none of this is relevant to my opening post; I'm not sure if it was supposed to be.