A few questions about religion | ward's Blog

I put this first in a comment after ArmyWifeUK's story but here it is again:

There is too much about religion that doesn't make sense to me.

For example: theists say you pray and are communicating with god, but isn't that silly? What is the carrier for the prayer message? Radio and television signals travel on modulated electromagnetic radiation, an invisible wavelength of light. What carries prayer? Why do you have to bow your head when you pray? Is that supposed to send the message faster or something? Does god pay more attention to people with bowed heads?

Theists say there had to be a "first cause," that something had to create the place we live, the universe; but then, if there has to be a first cause for everything, who or what caused god?

Theists say we all have a "soul' but nobody has ever observed a soul. Where is it within our bodies? Where does it come from? When does it join our bodies, and how? How does it get there, fly, float, walk, airplane, hot air balloon, how? Where does the soul go when we die? When does it leave us? What is the soul made of? Has it been studied, measured, proven to exist at all?

If god is so perfect and all powerful, why did he make such a breakable world and us to inhabit it? Didn't he see that we were going to do our best to ruin it? What is god made of? Where does he live? How is he/she nourished? How about the different religions of the world, if there is only one god, which religion names the right one, islam, christianity, judaism, some other religion?
Why did he make humans that could be so evil? Theists argue that he gave us free will and it is therefore our fault, but why did he do that, give us free will, if he could have, and should have, known it was going to turn out so badly? Besides that, organisms do not have free will, which has been proven and verified in the laboratory.

Those are all the questions about theism that I can muster off the top of my head. As far as I know, none have been answered satisfactorily by theism, ever.