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This reminds me of the person who thinks they can justify all manner of bad behavior, perhaps even murder, if a recognized ideal person has a single flaw, like getting angry. No wonder someone invented the perfect man, Jesus, to deal with this kind of irrational self-justification.
Because science has some mysteries (like what dark matter is) does NOT give theists and other believers in the supernatural the elbow room they need to make whatever unsupportable claims they want about God, his attributes, and attitudes, what their afterlife will be like, who they were in a previous life, and other ideas and expect the scientifically-minded to accept the ideas as possibly correct.
Let's fairly compare science and religion. Science has what answers there are. Religion is just psychotherapy.
Do you want to continue to believe absurdities like
-Men and women came from Adam and his rib,
-Animals have the names they do because Adam gave them those names,
-Life is tough because Adam ate the forbidden fruit,
-Wives have to be subservient to their husbands because Eve was deceived by the serpent
-Serpents lost their legs and have to crawl on the ground because God was mad the serpent deceived Eve,
-Rainbows exist because God wants to show that he won't flood the whole earth again,
-People speak different languages because God confounded the builders of the Tower of Babel,
-The Earth is flat and has four corners,
-If you have enough faith you can do miracles like
--bring down plagues against your enemies
--make the Red Sea divide by command
--make the Sun stand still
--make water become alcohol
--multiply a few loaves and fishes into enough for hundreds to eat
--walk on water
--live after your body has decomposed
--etc.
-illness is caused by supernatural evil forces and can be cured by paying the priest enough money
-rabbits eat their cud
-God will bring fire and brimstone down on the wicked cities, but will cause the righteous to float up to meet him
-etc., etc.
Instead of accepting all these foolish ideas, modern theists throw out what they can no longer swallow (like a flat earth), but keep what still sounds good to them (like Christ resurrected from the dead). Why keep any of it? If it violates the observed properties of the world we live in, why accept the nonsense? Because you grew up with the belief? Because it makes you feel good? Children feel good believing in Santa Clause. In my opinion, God is just Santa Clause for adults (and children).
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