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[quote=Anonymous]Science can explain how the world works.  But it can never explain the bizarre fact that a universe actually exists.  It can never explain the bizarre fact that energy and matter actually exist (it can tell you how those things came into existence, though the big bang, but never tell you why a big bang happened to occur).  It seems to me that "God" is our way of trying to discuss in metaphorical language our understanding that there is a mystery.  It evolves with culture, location, and our deepening knowledge of this bizarre fact that a universe does actually exist.  It is also a bit like the parables in the new testament.  Why doesn't Jesus speak directly?  Why does he speak in parables?  I think it is because there are things that the English language (or probably any other language, although I am not fluent enough in any other to know for a fact) has difficulty expressing directly.  Somehow, these truths comes through best through stories and art.  God is one of these.  Another thing I think of is this: why do most people tell their kids that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy exist when we know they do not and we know the kids will eventually find out?  I think it is because we know that these "fictions", while really "fictions" are actually also truths.  They are truths that we need, but can not express any other way (at least yet).  When we throw away traditional religion, we do throw away lots of junk that has accumulated over the centuries.  But we also throw away a truth that we don't yet know how to express or study any other way.[/quote]

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