intelligent design
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It is a conflict of interests to try and join science and religion. They are polar opposites.
A scientist by definition has to be impartial. He is simply looking and analysing, not looking for a specific answer. A scientist can NEVER prove his theory to be totally correct, only disprove a number of options.
The difference between scientists and religious fanatics is that scientists will always admit they are wrong if shown evidence. But religious fanatics will NEVER admit that they were wrong about god despite the fact that there has never been and will never be even a single shred of proof of his existence.
If you believe in science you cannot believe in god. Science and other intellectual studies eg psychology have explanations for why the human brain invented the concept of 'god' (1000s of years ago) to deal with ideas too complex for the brain to comprehend (death, infinite universe etc.). We are now actually getting some way to understanding those difficult concepts despite our feeble brains. Therefore the simplified 'easy' answer for everything (god) is not needed anymore.
sorry for the rant but this stuff pisses me off. Long live the flying spaghetti monster!