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There was a brilliant horizon documentary this week that I watched last night on iPlayer, "before the big bang'. It describes how the idea of the big bang is increasingly being doubted by the world's leading scientists, the notion of 'something coming from nothing', because they are discovering...

This sentence shows such a staggering lack of understanding of what evolution actually is I've concluded you can only be on a wind-up.

Yes I agree that the conditions for life are considered as hugely important but I was meaning more on an individual level. In science/evolution, you or I are no more unique or special or important than any other person on this earth, and we exist to continue our species, as does any other single...

How so? Perhaps I meant 'evolution' more than 'science' but I think it's true. There is a far greater sense of belonging and self-importance with religion than in evolution, which tells us that we primarily exist to pass on our genetic material to the next generation, not necessarily that there...

The thing that tickles me about this argument is the point it all goes back to. Christians say "well if the big bang happened, where did the explosion come from?" and yet believe first there was nothing, and then God just made everything. Out of nothing. It's essentially the same origin, and...