Clear-Eyed Seeker of Wisdom and Truth

Those of us who earnestly desire to find out the truth of things are assaulted with all sorts of "facts" about everything from religion, to politics, to science and a host of other things that many times do not pass the muster of thoughtful inquiry.
   There are many questions that arise in all of these areas that beg for answers.
   I would like to see thoughtful answers that  anyone might have to some of these questions:
   The faith question:
           It seems apparent that the human problem with knowledge requires that first we must make a number of faith-based statements about our own existence.  For example, the statement that  "there is a god" and the statement that "there is no god" are exactly the same from a rational standpoint.  That is to say, no evidence can be brought to bear that proves either position.  Yet both of these camps zealously guard thir own positions to whatever extent they can.  If either group has political power, it could actually cost you you life to hold the other position.
          As a clear-eyed seeker of widom and truth, the circumstantial evidence seems to be heavily on the side of life being a very sophisticated technology which we cannot understand.  Where did it come from? 
          Consider the case of the spider which was hatched inside a box.  This spider never saw another spider and never attended seminars on web spinning.  He is further disadvantaged in having a brain the size of the point of a pin.  Furthermore, as far as we can tell, he doesn't even "know" that he is supposed to survive.  Yet he sets about to spin a web to catch a fly he has never seen.  In addition, he has two orfices in his small body, one secretes a thick non-sticky web and the other secretes a very fine very sticky web.  He spins the non sticky web and attaches it to the floor of the box with the sticky web.  He then climbs up the side of the box, hauling the non-sticky web with him, and attaches the other end to side of the box with some of the sticky web.  After repeating this process a number of times, he then proceeds to loop the sticky web across the non-sticky strands in close intervals to create the trap for fly he has never seen.
          The level of highly critical technical choices this little fellow must make to achieve this is staggering.  Humans, with all of our brain power, couldn't even replicate the web, let alone create the body that made it.
          So I ask:   What happened here?   It seems that this knowledge must exist somewhere outside the spider and is somehow downloaded when he needs it - including the "knowledge" that he must survive.