Religion has been around a lot longer than nuclear weapons and therefore has been responsible for a lot more deaths.

Religion has cause a lot more wars and mass genocide than Science has. That shouldn't even be a debate.

Religion is not "bad." the depths people go to FOR their religion IS bad. Some religions try to force their way into everybody's everyday life. for instance Christians against gay marriage. You religion should be just that YOUR religion. you can follow the words of whatever book you wish. that shouldn't mean that everybody else has to live the same way you do. that reasoning led to war, mass genocide, and the killing or suicides of many. Religion can also be a good thing. It can unite otherwise completely different people and keep them within the compounds of morality.

Support for same sex marriage is growing rapidly and it IS only a matter of time before it is legal in ALL the states. I believe it is mostly due to the younger generations such as myself. Older generations were mind-fucked into believing many things were "OK" such as slavery and even after that was abolished racism was practiced in many households. as I'm sure after Gay marriage is legal there will be many homophobic households. Its like someones Dad being a racist and 20 years down the line they find themselves spurting a racist comment and catch themselves not even believing their own words. It was forced into their young minds. Younger generations have been increasingly allowed to explore their OWN beliefs the result of which is increased support for things that older generations were protecting out of tradition. Just because something is tradition doesn't mean its right.

Actually at this rate earth will be overpopulated anyway. So the more gay men and women the merrier (no pun intended) and as for "no more babies." just because you allow some gay men and women to marry doesn't mean every man and women on the planet will want to fuck the same sex. I'm completely FOR gay marriage but I don't feel the urge to go marry another dude. your argument sounds like that of an 8 year old.

they had some alcohol in their diet seemed to survive it just fine.

Smoking no 18 is fair enough, the legal age for many things including going to fight and die for your country, take another persons life, and watch your friends get killed right before your eyes. But you can't have a beer in that same country? tell me how you can be to young for one and just the right age for the other

Watch How the Earth was Made on the history channel. do some research on the subject. Not saying one way is better than the other but your just completely dismissing a whole other theory "the theory of evolution" which has just as many supporters. This is why people who follow your faith as blindly as you aren't taken seriously you submerse yourself on your own beliefs and give absolutely no merit to any other views.

I do not believe so. Our evolution and been rationally explained through science, And just because the very begging has not been discovered doesn't mean we should all believe in a "higher power" putting us all here for a purpose. Babies come out of the womb crying, and then die seconds later. Id there a purpose for them? No just as there is no purpose for us. We simply exist through unseen circumstances and evolved to a point of thinking rationally on our own.