Physicists, Biologists, or any other scientific profession, what is your view on religion after everything you have learned?

I'm a half semester away from graduating with a BS in Physics, so I hope I can sorta count here.

Honestly, learning about quantum mechanics has made me believe in some form of higher conciousness out there that can comprehend what we can't. I refuse to believe that there isn't SOMETHING out there that is smarter than us and can comprehend things we can't. The questions about WHY things are, why is coulomb's constant the magnitude that it is, why is the uncertainty principle a thing, why is gravity so much weaker than the other fundemental forces, all make me just wonder.

I don't like to think that we live in a univsere where those questions have no explanation. I like to think that there is something, either in a plane of existence higher than us, or exists in the same universe but just with a higher level of consciousness that DOES understand what we don't. Learning about how much we know just unveils how much we don't know, and it's because of that I believe there has to be something greater than us.

I don't believe in God like Christians or Muslims do, but I believe in something larger than us. To think human conciousness is the highest form of conciousness in the universe is extremely arrogant and frankly naive. It definitely puts me in the agnostic camp, but coming in as a freshman I was a firm atheist who thought the notion that there was any higher power was stupid. But just seeing first hand how miracously everyting just 'works' really made me doubt that there wasn't something pulling the strings, or something that can comprehend why these strings are pulled.

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