Poll: My religious beliefs are best summarized by...
Let's just get this out of the way. I'm interested in an approximate distribution even as I'm okay in the minority.
If you're saying that you do not act as if a God existed, I call that atheism. To me belief isn't a matter of profession, it's a matter of altered behavior. By this standard a lot of so-called believers actually aren't, so this is perhaps controversial, but I think this clarifies things.
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(The question was "best summarized by", so I assume the idea is to check only one, even though this spans two of the choices.)
That said, I also have faith (ironic, right?) that science will figure it out - they figured out gravity, calculus, relativity, etc. so why not this?
Not knowing why something happened is not enough for me to say "God exists." It means we need to keep looking for a reason.
Religious people put a lot of weight on the creation story. It's not important. It's perhaps one of those things that people tend to wonder about, but in terms of scientific knowledge and the benefit of doing science to make the world better, figuring out exactly how the universe created is pretty much a useless undertaking.
The important fact is that the universe exists and has properties that can be understood through science. It is not even relevant whether it ever did not exist. It simply does, and for human purposes it always will.
The idea of the universe not existing is borrowed from religion. Scientists have come up with some fun theories, but there are a lot more useful/practical/interesting areas of science to think about than trying to come up with a scientific alternative to religious cosmogenesis myths.