Quote:First off, science is not a religion. It isn't concerned with moral belief. Equating the two, or implying they are mutually exclusive, is silly. Many scientists are religious.
Besides, if I disbelieve in god then all it taught is suspect as well, including compassion, mercy, kindness, helping your fellow man? Without my faith then I should just become another self absorbed, money grubbing drone of society. Science doesn't have these beliefs and a world where science rules would make Nazi germany look like paradise...
Second off, you are typing this on a computer to be sent to other computers on the Internet around the world. You are touching plastic created by extracting oil from the ground, you are benefitting from your national power grid, the computer sends signals through phone or cable lines (or satellite, even better). Everywhere you look, everything you do, everything you wear, everything you touch is a product, in some way good or ill, of science. You would be hard-pressed to find a world science rules more thoroughly than it does this one.
Third off, you give yourself too little credit. Do you really think, were you to wake up tomorrow and decide you don't believe in God, that you would suddenly become completely selfish? You'd stop caring for your friends and loving your family, because there was no God? Nonsense. I don't believe that, and I doubt you do either.
Moreover, I'll even prove it to a certain extent. By your own admission, you say the Bible was written by humanity, and is therefore not necessarily divinely inspired. Moreover, I will absolutely guarantee you do not follow every moral precept laid down in the Bible. Therefore, how do you choose what morality to follow, since you have no clear-cut document sent to you by God? I suspect that you do so much as any nonbeliever does - by trusting in what your feelings tell you is right. I might be wrong, but by your own statements, it seems that your belief in God does not seem to be the basis for all your moral beliefs.
You may find this to be an interesting essay.