The opposite really.

Without God, there would be nothing. No science. It's because of God that there's science!

How could an earth and life this intricate be created by anything other than a higher being?

I'm a biology major, and I've found nothing that causes me to doubt God's existence.

What kateliness said.

I highly recomend Dr. Francis Collins' book "The Language of God." It's about the journey of an athiest who found God through science. He said, the more he learned about DNA, atomic structure, gravity, string theory, and abstract physics, the more he realized that a form of God had to exist, and He spoke to us through science and numbers. It also talks about the compatibility between science and religion, including the much debated creationism versus evolution idea, and how they really do not conflict with each other, providing a loose interpretation of the Book of Genesis.

Science had nothing to do with it. I knew as early as about age 5 that it was a bunch of hooey. I think the bible is a fairly good read.... about on par with Greek & Norsk mythologies.

Yes and no... taking astronomy and learning about the big bang and such and taking biology and learning all about Darwinism and evolution started to have my belief in God lessen.... but to be honest, the concept of humans just blows my mind. Our minds are so advanced and to think that we evolved from microorganisms (albeit over millions/billions of years) doesn't make sense to me. And I have many questions about the big bang... what started it? I can't imagine the universe never being, you know? I don't know. eeeeeeesh my comment is bouncing all over the place and makes no sense!

God uses nature as His toolbox & He made the Big Bang event happen. How God works is such a tremendous concept that our limited human perspectives cannot even begin to fathom everything!

I never believed in God so there was nothing to doubt.

for with god nothing shall be impossible!

i dont know what i believe in yet....i believe there is an all powerful being, but where it is is multiple gods (like the ancient greeks), or multiple aspects of one god (like hindus), or one god (christian), or even what role him/her/they have is beyond me...

but you believe in a higher being, nonames?

It was actually science that me stop believing in God. When I was an impressionable youth (I really was--I was four years old) I went to a Catholic primary school even though my parents weren't really Christian at all. My dad is technically a Jew (but not religious) and my mum was brought up Christian but became an agnostic.

Anyway, the general view at the school was, yeah, we'll accept you if you're not catholic, but we'll try and convert you so you don't go to Hell. In fact they were very persuasive. It was all based on "love". We love you, but you are a terrible person because you were not baptised into the Catholic faith. Your parents are sinners. How can you be so heartless as to not love God when he owes you nothing but does everything for you anyway? How can you be so heartless not to listen to us when we are spreading the word of God? God was taught as Fact and the big bang was taught as Fiction--they probably weren't supposed to but they did teach that evolution was all made up. Even when I was six I kind of thought "Couldn't God have invented the Big Bang? Why do you either have to believe everything they tell you or be a bad person?"

Anyway, the school wasn't very good--this wasn't to do with it being a faith school, it just wasn't very good. So I got into reading children's science books--my mum's idea. And I realised that the whole thing didn't add up. So I stopped believing and found that I was happier as a result.

science has proven energy can not me made or unmade, but hold tight with the big bang theory .... where did the bang come from then o.O

It was as a young child that science first starting me questioning religion and god. But overall it wasn't science that was the real cause but it was a factor. Personally I don't believe in God or religion and I have a wonderful life for which I am very grateful.

My option isn't in there, and that is that I never believed in god.

I have to say I'm an 'alfa' person rather than a 'beta' person, so I don't know that much about physics and biology, but things like evolution and the Big Bang sound waayyy more likely to me than creationism and 'the Earth was created in seven days'.

I'm sure that a lot of people here have excellent arguments to why god could exist, but I just think there's nothing, and that's it.
Beauty of the world? Evolution and coincidence.

me either lunaste

I never doubted because I never believed.

Sure, as have tons of other things, but you work through them and get a stronger faith because of it.

Every day, I doubt God. But He always finds a way to make me go back to Him. I guess I'm hooked! :D

yes and no.. that's why i'm agnostic ha hah! i kid... actually, it was religion that made me doubt the existence of god, and science that made me doubt my doubt! (ooh i'm on a roll tonight :P)

no religion has ever presented me with a logical enough, or convincing enough argument for the existence of god. they're all wishy washy, contrary, mostly mythological pieces of literature (to me!), that are very valuable, but ultimately unconvincing. anyone who's ever been interested in quantum physics, however, would be hard pressed to not be at least a little curious, if not downright confounded as to how exactly all that comes together just the way it does.

i'm sorry, i'm a little rambly tonight, so excuse my less-intelligible-than-usual comment.

EVeryone should question thier beliefs it's unhealthy not to..

Science can be just as vague and confusing as religion at times.

growing up and learning more about science made me question some of my beliefs, i'm just trying to learn more each day.

wasn't really sure what to pick on this one, since I've never believed in God in the first place.

it used to, but now I know better. after researching a LOT, I finally understood that science actually proves that God and the Bibble are true. go figure :P

I don't believe in God. Science didn't convince me he isn't, but I say he isn't without science.

These choices cofuse me.

Yeah, there isn't really an option for people who never believed in God in the first place

I have never believed strongly in God. xo

Actually it was the bible that made me doubt the existance of "God" and science just reinforced that doubt

I've never believed in God. I don't think it's possible that He could exist. Science reinforces that belief.

The only way it could is if you believe that the scientific method can and should be applied to everything, and the corollary that if you cannot apply the scientific method, then its existence is in doubt.

The scientific method is predicated on the idea that cause and effect are consistent and predictable. Imagine if I were to base my belief in your existence solely on whether you respond to my e-mail messages or not, assuming that I have no other contact with you than our correspondence. If you don't always reply, then scientifically I could say you may not exist. It you never reply I could make the valid scientific claim that you don't exist. If your replies take a different form outside the scope of the experiment (you send me a message through a mutual friend, for instance), it would be indistinguishable from not replying, and a scientific case could be made for alternative causes for those effects (our friend generated the message himself without hearing from you). If you always reply but the replies differ each time in how long you take to respond, I could claim scientifically that your responses were not actually responses to me. If you were consistent in your responses to my messages, I could hypothesize that you exist, but as soon as you fell ill or decided to not respond in a consistent way to my message, the whole hypothesis would come into question: maybe you don't really exist, after all. Science requires high statistical consistency and predictability. I challenge you to find any relationship that is that consistent and predictable.

I never believed in God's existence.. so science only made me believe that stronger. So i guess this question wasn't asked properly.

Well, I always doubted God's existence. Science confirmed it for me. But I believe that there is one religion that is right and all other religions are wrong. If my veiw is wrong, than that is fine with me.

I cannot lie, for a while i didn't belive, but now i realize god dwell in science and god is science.

never, science proves nothing about God. God cannot be proved, he simply has to be believed in.

yeah.. oops.

There is no wrong way to ask this question, eline-kerpels. You're wanting to make more out of this topic than what's meant to be.

Sorry.... I don't really have an answer for this.... :(

I never believed in any god anyway, God seems more to be a character used to explain what in the earlier periods of our history was unexplainable.

If nobdy believed in gods like us goths, you wouldn't even know what the word war ment. So many problems as well as death and confusion was all because one person said, "This is against ___ God. We must kill them." It's really that simple

No,I'm sorry-I believe and I may not go to church every Sunday but I do believe.

'If nobdy believed in gods like us goths'

There are goths that believe in God.
And we would know what the word 'war' meant, because people will fight over land, food and riches or something else.

I somewhat DO doubt in God's existance, but not really because of Science, though it particially has to do with that.

Science made me see the light! I used to be brainwashed by my family when I was younger, but now I can finally think for myself, and I know there is no god.

I sometimes doubted religion for other reasons....

Not really, I never believed in God.

I'm an atheist, although that is more because I find most monotheistic religions to be immoral. Science played a part in losing my faith, but a much smaller part.

I have no doubt that the God people talk about is fake.

no not really, my former atheist teacher said she converted to Christianity after taking classes on Genetics. Science is more the "how" things are, while God is more the "why". I don't put them in the same category, its not like science can proof God doesn't exist but more (quote from my teacher) if you can't prove or disapprove it, then its not important right now.

No, I already doubted it, because the idea is pretty hard to believe when there is no evidence of a God. As far as I'm concerned, science and God both fail answer many questions I have. And, I believe that we have no reason to believe 'theories' so easily... There is no evidence that a God created Earth, or that the Big Bang Theory did... As far as humans are aware, we have no real idea of what happened to create such a planet as Earth. Everything we know is not certain, but they are theories that some people seem eager to believe. I'm not so easily fooled... If there is truly a God, then where is he? I haven't seen him.

My answer is no because none of the scientific evidence we have disproves the existence of any god, not to any extent. It does raise questions about a number of religious texts, and while I think that doesn't mean that religion and science are mutually exclusive, it does make me question the veracity of any given religion. I believe in God, but the only thing that makes me question the existence of such a deity is that bad things happen. A lot of people justify it through some sort of unknowable divine plan, but I can't help but wonder if a god whose divine plan involves killing off millions of innocent people is a deity worth believing in. I'd say that the actions of humans, not the scientific observations we've made, have done more to test faith in deities of all sorts.

Well yes. The religion I was taught said one thing, and science said something completely different. I questioned God's existence quite frequently when I was younger. Overall I'm not quite sure if there is a God or not. To my knowledge there is no evidence of him, so I have no real reason to believe in him until I am presented with some sort of proof. I'm quite open minded, I think it's possible, but I can't ever know for sure.

I love scientists and atheists...but I love God! WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?!

My belief system is kinda complicated.