Sorry Joe, you can't become a pastafarian any more than I could become a Catholic. You have to seriously believe you see...

I like being an actual member of a religion now, it is giving me a sense of purpose that was obviously lacking when I went through life without any hang ups...

Right, sorry. Serious point time...

This thread is drifting into entropy / probability territory. Quite appropriately, as a common aim of science and theology is pondering why we are here and how. The more I read on why a quantum event such as the big bang can foster a fairly non quantum reality such as that we can observe is not only one of life's mysteries, I would argue it is the one we should all be asking if indeed we are asking anything about how we got to where we are today.

Assuming our hubble sphere (observable universe) observes similar laws to other hubble spheres....   ah.. there you see, we are drifting into hypothesis already and that means religious interpretations can be valid till proven otherwise. we are no further forward.

Off to grate some parmisan...