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Originally Posted by Leto
Well, I think that people generally attempt to come up with the simplest reasoning for events (Occam's Razor?) and will automatically gravitate to the view that suits them and their arguements.
I think, however, that eminent scientists such as Einstein were getting close to the the view that belief in the efficacity of a toolset (i.e. a paradigm, a methodology) doesn't mean that one can have faith in a belief. Go ahead and believe that God created the universe. Maybe at one point in our development of science, we may even be able to demonstrate that.
But there is nothing wrong in believing that science can provide some answers, and will grow to answer more. Increasingly, the religious will be able to devote more of their faith to worship of God, rather than having to explain anomalies as acts of God.
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They are afraid because the more you explain the less they can say 'act of god' the less important their invisible friends become.