Unfortunately the length of time I would need to 'convince' many of those folks posting on this thread that G*d does exist - is not available to me. It would take many hours of explanation and teaching, and sources etc - and I just dont have the time. A few quick points however that may help clarify
- Judaism records that approximately 2 million people witnessed G*d directly - and were killed and resurrected by the experience due to the sheer power of proximity. If you think about it from a logical perspective for a moment -to suggest to the inhabitants of a country that they must now follow 613 complicated laws that restrict their lives in almost every aspect because of an event that no one remembers happening 40, 200, 500 or 3000 years ago is not tenable. Just to start having people follow such laws requires that they have some direct experience, otherwise, it wont work
- There were multiple instances of both direct experience of G*d throughout the time that Jews lived in Israel - and some were recorded by external sources - such as Romans. In the 2nd Temple era - sadly corruption was rampant. On one day a year - the Kohen Gadol was to go into the 'Holy of Holies' where literally G*d resided - and present incense. Roman soldiers recorded that during this time - Jews started tying ropes around the Kohen Gadol because he would often die in the Holy of Holies. Instant death. In addition there are numerous recorded instances in which for one Tzadik birds would burst into flame if he were to study Torah while walking - and they crossed his path. In another example (and there are thousands) G*d's voice echoed through the land to attempt to settle a dispute regarding halacha with respect to oven construction.
- Recently a Torah scroll was discovered that is over 2000 years old. They could not open it otherwise it would disintegrate - so they imaged it (MRI). It's exactly the same as a Torah from today.
- The Talmud cites that the moon came from the earth - that was how G*d created it - and that has largely been agreed to be accurate
- Recently both NASA and Germany (not sure which group) undertook to determine the exact number of days in a month. The calculation was the same as the Jewish Calculation thousands of years ago to 6 decimal places.
- Every prophecy given by the Torah has now been fullfilled -everything from Jews being expelled from the Holy Land, to the horrors that would befall them if they did not follow the Torah. I wont go into details because most here would not be able to understand
I could go on and on. Be assured however that G*d does actually exist. He retracted himself such that its difficult for us to find him - in order that we make our choices, and choose what we want in this world - either we want good, or we want 'bad'.
'Bad' isnt what you think however- bad is selfishness. Last lesson for you - G*d gives of himself constantly to sustain the Universe - giving of his life force, giving of his focus, giving to us to sustain the reality in which he makes. Every blade of grass he concentrates on, every breeze, every person and every animal and insect to will them into existance - CONSTANTLY. He wishes for us to learn this - so that we may sustain our own planets at a later time.
I lied -one last lesson - G*d isnt some dude with a beard and sandals - if you have to think of something - think of the most pure form of energy - but infinitely more complex.
And again and again and again, all these things can be explained easily without introducing the entity called "God". What you cited is a bunch of facts that can be interpreted in any way, but directly do not point at any creator being. You can, of course, imagine a field of energy that interacts with our Universe, moving the energy back and forth - but why would you want to do it? Occam's Razor doesn't like this way of thinking, and for a good reason: our theories would be much more bloated, if we included a lot of unfounded assumptions in them for pure flavor or artistic beauty.
I think it's time to agree that religion and science have different domains: religion tries to guide people morally through using fictional stories as an illustration for how a person should act to be happy, and science tries to give them an effective interpretation of how the Universe functions. I don't understand the point of looking at religious texts and trying to infer some kind of a truth about the Universe from them: it would be like reading Lord of the Rings to try to understand what happens in the middle of a black hole. Different domains, different goals, different fields of relevance and irrelevance.
Your best argument is, "They *might* be hiding something, and this *might* be it!" Science deals with evidence, not random assumptions, hence it doesn't take these claims seriously. There is no global conspiracy, just basic logic.
It is not clear to me why you assume that science cannot explore the spiritual world. What prevents it from doing it? If spiritual world exists and can be interacted with, then scientific method will work for it just as well as it works for the material world. We study, for example, force fields, even though they aren't exactly material.
Science can and does, although often secretly conducted. Ever see "The Men Who Stare at Goats" (2009)? That is based on historical fact of American government programs. The problem is politics. See (my) Post #90.
The problem with all these programs is that they never produced any trustworthy results. Of course, one can claim that the government received some results and hid them from the public, but... That's a conspiracy theory, and those cannot be proven and disproven, hence discussing them philosophically makes little sense.