It is impossible to prove the existance or nonexistance of God, so we will have people arguing in circles for all time!
Which is where faith comes in.
Do we care to acknowledge the amazing things around us, or the amazing things happening within us?
I also believe in evolution. Not only did Darwin get it right, he nailed it on the head, without even being aware that DNA existed. Genetics may not have proved the theory yet, but there's such a mountain of evidence to support it that you really have to be blind to dismiss it.
So let's ask science and genetics in one hand, and ask God in the other, and see which fills up faster.
It also seems strange to me that, historically speaking, as power moves away from the Church and into the hands of the populace, the Church has begrudgingly redacted or revised it's views and tagged along behind science in an effort to seem relevant. Just a few years ago no Christian would even entertain the idea that evolution exists, and now most of them say "well, yes... but God started it." A few years before that no Christian would entertain the idea that the earth was more than, what, 6000 years old? As in literally 6000 years old, not figuratively. Now a good number also agree with the evidence that science has set before them.
And let us not forget the time that Galileo was imprisoned for (rightly) defending Copernican theory. The Church dictated that the earth was the center of the universe. This fact was so ingrained in the Church's ideology that they imprisoned a man for suggesting it might be wrong. And not just suggesting... but offering evidence. Now there isn't a Christian alive who believes that the earth is the center of the universe (except maybe a few wackos).
So how can Church doctrine be so absolutely true and yet so absolutely mutable? That fact alone, in my mind, undermines any remaining validity in what religion has to offer people.
Just my two cents, hope this thread doesn't go up in flames.
I can see what you're saying about the church, yes it has made stupid claims and done many stupid things in the name of God, however some Churches are getting back to the truth written in the Bible and realising what it really means to be Christian. (and no I don't mean what the media portrays of the bible and church).