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That's science for you! Always moving, refining and retesting, just as it should. I agree about the misuse of quotes - it's the typical 'everything black-and-white' good vs evil belief the pervades through opinion. What I love about science is the fact that it's good the say 'we don't know yet...

In trying to work out the routes of stellar nucleosynthesis, he observed that one particular nuclear reaction, the triple-alpha process, which generates carbon, would require the carbon nucleus to have a very specific energy for it to work. The large amount of carbon in the universe, which makes...

Read Simon Singh's excellent 'Big Bang'. Can't find my copy at the moment. Yes, he was wrong about Steady State (and didn't have any observations to back it up), but that didn't mean EVERYTHING he touched was rubbish. In a long career there was plenty he did right.

So, if you look at a lit candle in the sun you're saying the light from the candle no longer exists? How do you work that out? You may not be able to see it, but it can be measured, tested and predicted.

How is that a miracle? It's a coincidence, and has no consequence.

Most of the scientific community. He had more than 1 thought in his life and was an incredible physicist. Yes, he was wrong about the Big Bang (his term, by the way), but later calculations by him help to show how the universe expands.

Really? Citations needed for this, I think. Religion played a huge part in the most recent European holocaust. Don't confuse correlation with causation.

Which is where, anatomically-speaking? And why would I care when the rest of me will be happily rotting away in the ground?

Really? Salvation from what? Coming from where? How? Why?

Many people do bad things in the name of a wide variety of things, including 'god'. Many people also do good things in the name of these same things, including 'god'. All this shows is that some people are do good things, others do bad things. Belief in (or the existence of) any god(s) is...

Just like most people who believe in god then. Do you believe in Thor, Odin, Shive, Ganesh, Apollo and Zeus? If not, why not? Are these 'gods' not valid, and backed up by exactly the same evidence as your god?

A philosophical debate would be more along the lines of "do we, in the 21st century, need the concept of higher beings?" That wasn't the question. It was about god, and looking at the options available in the poll it's about the judeo-christian god.

Most of that is completely unsubstantiated bollocks. You seem to use the word 'we' to mean everyone from uneducated infants to quantum physicists and astronomers. THIS universe (the one we live in) had a beginning and will have an end. The start (and end) is a singularity - outside of it has no...

Well, I'll agree with them on that one....

So, if you have one particular view of this subject (ie yours) then contributions to the thread are fine, but if you have a different view on the subject then "you have nothing further to contribute"? How is your opinion more relevant than mine? Or anyone else's?

So, from person to person then... Again, that doesn't make it so. Many children believe in monsters under the bed, trolls under bridges, fairies and invisible friends. This does not make them real.

So what? I can declare myself a bird - it doesn't mean I can fly. Saying you believe in something does not mean it somehow magically exists.

Really? The fact that ALL stories of ANY gods have their origin with mankind doesn't show you proof that 'god' is man made? That was your question. Would you also like proof of the non-existence of unicorns? What level of 'proof' of non-existence would be acceptable to you?

Well, show me ANY religious text from ANY religion EVER and I will show you the work of man.