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It is obvious that religion is not just a jumble of stories, myths, and practices that make no sense but are followed out of tradition.
Since when does something being a "tradition" preclude it from also being "a jumble of stories, myths, and practices that make no sense"?
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Religious beliefs must all have reasons behind them.
Sure, but they are often reasons that are more about soothing the bewildermant and fear of the dangers and unknowns of our precarious existence.
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The reason why people become part of a religion is because they truly believe that the religion has a sound explanation for the mystery of this universe.
No they don't.
Most people become part of a religion because they were raised in that religion by their parents.
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People all have questions like: Why does the world exist? Who made it? Who controls it? What keeps everything going? What happens after death? The religion to answer these questions in the best manner will be followed.
No, for the vast majority of people the religion they were raised in will be perceived as having the best answer.
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Science does not avoid these questions in the least bit.
Actually, science cannot answer most of them.
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Rather, science tries to answer every one of these questions based on the five senses. Science can therefore be considered a religion that believes in a strictly physical world and one that hides nothing from the five senses.
No, it really cannot.
Unless, of course, you broaden the definition of "religion" to mean any method that is adhered to. By your definition, football is a religion.
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If science would consider a supernatural being not bounds by the constraints of humans to be a possibility, many of the scientific principles can be challenged.
Well sure, but then you would be changing the rules of science.
Can you explain how accepting supernatural explanations for phenomena would benefit the explanitory power or accuracy of scientific inquiry?
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