The athiest within a theist

The author has tried to put forward all possible arguments and did not come to any conclusion. The beliefs of author have not been disclosed. Article does not support atheism either. It is left to the reader what conclusion he wants to come to

No , No, No exclaimed my mother. If we don't perform the daily rituals(god related: puja, naivedya and all rituals performed during festivals), god wont spare us. We must perform the rites.
I was brought up a in an (over)religious family. So never thought about the god, but blindly followed the beliefs(actually culture). God comes to help in need of people doing punya(pious deeds) and punish those who do paap(wrong doing) is the notion followed in all religions. My conscience too never allowed me to contrast this belief. But does god punish if you don't worship too? That question left me confounded and unanswered. I had hell lot of questions storming in mind with no clues.
Doubt 1: Does god exists?does he protect good?
->God punishes those doing paap and protects those doing punya. But if you take a survey, this theory of paap and punya will definitely fail. Its works only in hindi movies where the villain always get punished and hero wins. Real life works on the principles of survival of fittest and not punya and paap, and no shaktimaan comes to save the poor and weak.
->If god does not/cannot punish paapi(bad) people, will he punish just because you don't worship him?
If you go to the forest in africa or even the kond tribe in niyamgiri hills in orissa who worship nature, hills and the forest.Will god punish them because they dont worship him? Or what if i was born in that tribe? would god have punished me because of my ignorance of his existence?
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But there are another doubts which kill the atheist within me.
1> River saraswati one of the revered rivers after ganga and yamuna was unknown for centuries. But excavations in the places as defined in our holy books showed that the river did exists during so and so period. How can i deny the thing defined in our holy book which our science too reinforces? If i believe this fact from the holy book, how can i deny the other stories in my holy book?
2>Ram setu(bridge), built by lord Rama between india and sri lanka is well known in our mythology. NASA satellite images too showed that some kind of bridge did exist. So if i believe this fact, it makes me believe it was built by rama only and therefore god(rama) did exist!
3>Hinduism beieved in Navagraha(9 planets)from centuries, but we had 10 planets (including pluto) according to our science. All of a sudden in 2007 scientists declared pluto not as a planet. How did our ancestors know that there are only nine planets thousands of years back when there was no telescope or science, whereas our science proved it only 3 years back??
Are all these coincidences between the scriptures(science fiction novels??) written by ancestors thousands of years back and the present day science? or were these ancestors geniuses who wanted to pass this knowledge to future generations and wrapped this knowledge with idea of religion?