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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a country where almost everyone is an atheist. Interesting enough quite a few of my friends who came to US to complete their PHD in chemistry or biology started to believe in God.

Do they believe the world is 4000 years old? No. They believe what the bible called a day is a metaphor. What is time anyway? It's merely a dimension that can be warped according to the theory of relativity. A day on a different planet can be a year, a century, or a millennium on earth. A black hole can make time pass extremely slow.

Do they believe Evolution? Some do. Some don't.  For those who do, they think that's the way God created humans. As a species who never quit asking where we came from, who created us, humans are fundamentally different than other species. Why all human races possess the innate need to find out who created them (be it God, a set of rules in the universe, chemical reactions of some sort)?

There are so many things we still don't know. To say we figured the myth of human creation out by science today is like those who claimed they figured everything out centuries ago by religion. All the scientific theories are still evolving. Steve Hwaking, who himself doesn't believe in God, just modified his theory on blackholes.  Maybe one day, we'll find there's a converging point between science and religion.  Some scientists don't believe it has to be one way or the other, just like Isaac Newton believed in both science and God. [/quote]

I find it remarkable that you know several biology PhDs who don't believe in the evolutionary process.

In any case, I don't think science has all the answers now, and I don't think any reasonable atheist does. But "there are things we don't know" doesn't equate to "God exists." That leap has always been something that is utterly foreign to me. I was raised as a religious child and I didn't understand it even as a kid. I remember thinking about it as a child: Why would you go from "there are things we don't know" to "therefore, there must be a supernatural, intelligent, all-powerful being who exists, who is powerful enough and loves us enough to create the universe and everything in it, but not powerful enough (or doesn't love us enough) to keep the little brother of my classmate from dying." I have never been able to feel comfortable with that leap.[/quote]

You lack the faith that an innately religious person has. Some say faith is a gift.  Perhaps, except to the extent it causes a person to deny logic and common sense.[/quote]

Sometimes I get scared when I have to go into the basement alone at night. How can you explain that unless Satan exists?[/quote]

Spiders.[/quote]

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