Why Believe in God

Ricky Gervais is currently getting alot of media attention for his discussion of why he is an atheist.  It's printed as an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal and getting big hits on YouTube.

One has to admit, the humanist view he expresses, that there is no God because science purports to prove He doesn't exist, or at least that no omnipotent, immortal, entity that may or may not be vaguely anthropomorphic does exist, has a certain persuasive feel.  A similar view was taken by Bertrand Russell a generation or two ago, and the argument is no less refutable now than it was then.

However, it strikes me that not being able to prove God exists, even being able to prove the near-impossibility of a God-type deity existing is no more proof that God doesn't exist.  It comes down to a question of faith either way.  The humanist approach places its ultimate faith in Man and the spiritual approach places its faith in God. 

As it happens, science, at least theoretical physics, is getting closer to proving the that God and science are intertwined, inexorably.  Higgs Boson, or the God particle, is coming closer and closer to being discovered every day.  This brings us ever closer to finding a Unified Theory of everything.  Will we find that everything includes that undefinable bit in back of it all that can neither be explained or explained away?  And is that undefinable the God that the spiritualists, myself included, believe in.