Why be Agnostic or Why Science cannot explain everything

For a long time in my life, I have been a staunch believer in god, then I entered a stage of being Atheistic... Off-late I find Agnosticism a better way of explaining this world..
Being a believer, you tend to ignore many contradictions in whatever you follow. You also believe that some divine source is in control of your life rather than you yourselves..
In contrast, Atheists believe that they are entirely in control and all actions can be rationally explained.. All along my being Atheistic, I encountered a fundamental problem in explaining my stand, though I was never questioned along those lines by any of the believers around me.. I could never a very fundamental question which no science could explain or for that matter even question, that being, Why was there matter in the first place?? Forget Big bang theory, forget origins of life, black holes, anti-matter, universe etc,. which all seem to have some scientific explanation readily available. My question is even more fundamental and trivial, why was there matter and why was it structured in such a way and who put matter or created it in the first place. This is where I find being agnostic a much better proposition..
Being Agnostic, I could take my mind of these fundamental questions which have wreaked havoc with my being Atheistic. Now I can let science explain all that it can explain about my world and leave the fundamental questions which cannot be answered by science in the realm of an unexplainable source of creation and philosophy.

The fallacy of Heaven and Hell

Most religions around the world have a conception of Heaven and Hell after death. Christianity have Heaven and Hell; Islam has Jannat and Jahannam; Hinduism has Swarg and Narak etc.. Entry into Heaven is based on how good you have been in your life on earth. Those who fail to clear the cut-off are automatically relegated into Hell.
However, I fail to understand the very essence of this conception and our craving to be Heaven.. Humans, as also other species are strictly concerned with survival and fear death the most.. Once we are dead what greater fear can exist?? Whether you are in Heaven or Hell makes no big difference as you know that you are dead which is any beings worst  and ultimately only fear..
Off late clerics have advocated destruction and death to non-conformists as an easy access to Heaven/Jannat/Swarg.. But if you understand that Heaven/Hell make no big difference you understand the irrationality of man made death and destruction in the name of religion..

The reality of India's economic growth

As you might be seeing, there has been a tremendous growth in the GDP of our country. But is this growth a reality?? Has the life of the people really improved??
80% of our country's population still live a life with a meager Rs.20 a day.. The number of people below the Poverty line has been growing.. one lakh farmers have committed suicides in the last decade (an average of 27 farmers per day). The gap between the haves and have-nots which as per our economic policies is supposed to come down, has now gone up.. While all the above statements present a poor picture of our economy, yet you see that our economy is booming..
This boom in our economy is because of the IT and ITES sectors, which have been pumping in large volumes of money into the economy. People think that we are growing prosperous, but in reality only the upper 5-10% of the population is becoming prosperous. Not only that, but because of this economic prosperity, people are spending more, causing a steep rise in inflation in costs of commodities. This would mean that the remaining 95% of people who are not growing prosperous are also shelling out larger amounts of money. This is causing a further rift among the rich and the poor. This is the reality in our economy..