Don't believe it's a 'conspiracy' , just saying science already perfectly explained how live as we know it, happend, nothing to do with a god or any divine creator
That gigantic book isn't exist cos a group of men sat down and wrote a story of the entire earths creation in one time. Every religion has their own version of the their God and how the earth was created, I believe those scripts where written by philosopher's & and the pioneers of scientist, it has changed and grow into a book through many years, not just wrote down in one day or a year.Explain me how it comes we have the bible, quaran,etc... not to be forgotten all the other religions & their version in their books like Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Lamaism, etc... all have a different view of things & facts, they all believe their religion is the one & only true religion.....
The benefit, hmmm , not hard to guess... one word ...POWER, Look at the history of each religion and how they got spread, all through power, it was in the early days simple, people weren't educated and therefore an easy target for a group of smart people to have control over.Look at how Christianity got spread, it got spread by killing thousands of people who wouldn't believe in it, it was simple, you either must believe or you would got killed by for expml. a spanish inquistor or by a cruisader, same goes for the Islamic beliefs and the rest of the religions out there, even in India not so long ago (20 or 30 years) ago 1000 sixth & hindoes where killed in a reliongs battle of which god was real and which one not.
Most probly some pages & stories written in for exmpl. the bible are false & true at the same time, meaning, what if a 'God' was nothing more then and extraterrestrial encounter (now we becoming on the stargate story, but other elements on earth are alrdy proven there where highly inteligent (beings' visiting earth alrdy several times).
Now suppose one of those lifeform did something that looked for the common men divine, and those stories where written down, slighty changed over the years and voila, you got you're bible with the false/true stories & details or do you really believe that Mozes opened the Red Sea with a wooden stick to let the refugees escapes from a faroa ?
But as far as i enjoy this debate, we must not forget we are on a gaming forum So Religion or not, on my side or not, if I am in the other team then you , you probly will die