To answer the question, we must, in Kant's words, abolish knowledge, to make room for belief.
What Kant means by that is that the question of God is outside the scope of science. Science cannot prove or disprove faith, and God cannot prove or disprove science (in Kant's case, metaphysics).
On this quintessential change in the history of the sciences and philosophy, Nietzsche later wrote his infamous madman's cry in The Gay Science. God is dead, not in the ontological sense, but in the sense that he no longer matters in the running of our world. You cannot rely on God to move the universe, to explain consciousness, to answer all the troubling questions a la medieval philosophy and up to and including Descarte, Leibnitz , Spinoza, etc. The dogmatic form of explanation is simply no longer sufficient.
So, once it's been established that the question of God is not a question which is dealt with through empirical science (putting aside for a minute the highly suspect "God of the Brain" theory), one needs to ask then what sort of answer would do?
To me it is obvious that no sort of answer can ever do right by all parties, but as in all matters of choice theories and beliefs, particularly in philosophy, it is considered prudent to assess the pros and cons of every philosophical stance. There are prices for accepting different perspectives, and it is worthy to weigh your choice-beliefs wisely.
Personaly, after weighing the positions, I have come to the conclusion that I prefer the cohrenece of a scientific POV. But not mere agnosticism or delayed judgment, but rather I preceive irrational belief as damaging to mankind. History is filled with horrors and attrocities readily done in the name of faith. I do not believe religion is the bedrock of our morality, quite the contrary.
In the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Steven Weinberg:
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things - that takes religion. "
