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Atheists don't think they know everything about the world, they just don't believe in God[/quote]

My point is that we really don't know how the universe works or was created. All are theories have wholes in them. We are not knowledgeable enough to prove the existence or non-existence of God. Both those that believe there is a God and those that don't are operation from a believe system that cannot be proven.[/quote]

That's not an accurate assessment. Despite the limitations of our scientific knowledge, we know a whole lot about our world and the universe. Our scientific knowledge is ever expanding as we continue to push ahead with our research and conduct rigorous experimentation to validate/invalidate our theories. The same is not true of the belief in God. The domain of God is ever decreasing as time goes on. What men used to attribute to God, we now attribute to physical laws of science. Those who still believe are now far more fluid and interpretive about the nature of God, rather than the more rigid and deterministic view of God that was held for centuries. This position shift was out of necessity since our expanding knowledge about the world so directly contradicted the so called evidence that people used to argue for the existence of God. To put science on equal footing as creationism or belief in God with the logic that neither offers a complete explanation is to ignore the vast evidence that science is correct versus how little evidence remains that God exists.

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