Albert Einstein believed in God. Max Planck believed in God. Stephen Hawking believes in God.  Why can't you?
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Oh, I do. A true scientist believes in God because they know everything is too complex to just happen spontaneously.
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Of course He can.  If He has created the universe and all that is within, and has created you, then do you think turning a square into a circle is difficult.  The problem is that you still wouldn't believe.  You will only keep asking other questions.\n\nIf you chose not to believe in God, then you and only you will be responsible for the consequences.  Maybe if you really want to find out the truth, you should ask yourself the real questions and try to figure them out with sincerity and care.  Your question tells me you only want to make fun and look smart.\n\nIn the meantime, I have a question for you.  If you are so smart, can you explain to me what is gravity? (don't tell me what it does, we all know that)
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Why propose a question you do not believe in?  Secondly, scientist have proven that the univers is expanding from a central point?  Why do you think this is...Do you think God push things outward to make more room?\n\nBesides if god created us, then who created god?
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Actually, Einstein believed in Spinoza's god.  He didn't believe in a creator.  Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.\n\n----\n\nI also noticed how you phrased that... "Source for a longer SHORT list"\n\nFunny, isn't it, that you can only find a short list, when Project Steve has over 100,000 names on it supporting Evolution -- and they limit themselves to PhDs named Steve.  Can you imagine how massively limiting that is?  ONLY PhDs, and ONLY if they're named Steve.
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Big Bang. Though I don't believe in god, there's no reason that these two theories are mutually exclusive.\n\nNow, the fact is that the Big Bang theory may be wrong. However, it is the best explanation that we have at the moment, and until something better comes along, I'm willing to accept it.\n\nRealistically, the idea of an omnipresent man in the sky does not constitute a "better" theory for me, especially since the only evidence that he is there is in some books which cite only themselves as sources.
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As a child Albert Einstein was a religious Jew, then became atheist as a teenager through his study of mathematics and physics.\n\nLater in life he started to console his childhood faith with science, having realised that the Big Bang could have been God-initiated or God-controlled.\n\nHe made a few references to God and the universe, each time wanting to know God'd intention, thinking, or mind.\n\nIn fact, Einstein asks the same questions other Jews have wondered for thousands of years. Much of the same is asked in the Talmud and other Jewish exegesis.
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God.  He is not fallible.  He is the creator of man who is the creator of science.  Man is fallible and therefore so is science.
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One man by the name of A. Einstein believed that a unified theory is possible. As you know he did a pretty good work on general theory of relativity.  His explanation of gravitation perhaps was not complete (we need that unified theory to figure exactly what gravitation is) but it was much better then say the older Newtonian idea.  At the same the, as Albert was developing the general theory of relativity, the Quantum Mechanics (QM) became to emerge as serious science. The QM scientist beloved that the behavior of subatomic particles is probabilistic. Einstein heard that ad protested with a statement: “I do not believe God play dice with the Universe” to which Niels Bohr answered “Albert, do not tell God what to do” (Or something like that). So the fit between deterministic macro world and probabilistic micro world has begun.\n\nToday physicists s are trying to marry the macro world, where very week gravitational force act, to the micro subatomic world of QM.  The string theory seems to have the mathematical tooling to allow both of these worlds to exist within a single model.\n\nYou can find more info in \nThe Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene \n\nWho by the way I heard had an excellent documentary on NOVA, PBS.\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/greene.html
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1 is not true. Most scientists are religious. \n\n2 is true if you add "some" at the beginning. Not all people believe that there is a god.
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Not only universe is  a proof of God but even a very smallthing like atom also a proof of God.Perfection is possible if there is the God only.
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i guess i must have as well \n\ni believe that god=universe. he is life itself, the energy force that keeps the world operating. i believe that one day this energy force, would be detected by scientist. i dont think i have to bow down and worship this energy force. religious faith that teaches that god wants us to worship him makes no sense to me, because it makes him sound like a dictator: he created us soley to worship him? couldnt be, if he is SO good.\n\ni believe everything, and i mean everything has this god/energy within it. for living creatures it might be considered the soul. we're all connected to this energy... we're part of it. as a result, we can manipulate this energy through such practices as prayer, meditation, witchcraft, feng shui, etc. i believe in mind over matter... great amounts of faith, can move mountains...\n\ni believe in evolution. i think the universe has always existed, though planet earth hasnt. like i said, to certain christians, this cant be so hard to believe being that they think an omniscient, omnipotent god has always existed. i say the universe has always exsted, because no one has actually every made anything. everything in the universe is always recycled, which is also why i believe in reincarnation, because, the soul energy is also recycled.\n\ni think jesus christ did exist. but i think he was a prophet, like mohammed. i think many of them knew the truth of the universe, but could only explain the importance of being good to others, by using "god" to explain it. at the time, and now we're still too small-minded to figure it out for ourselves\n\ni also agree with you in combining parts if different faiths, not just with what i said about controlling energy with prayer/ meditation/ witch craft. i think most religions have the basic guidelines on how to live life. it involves being good to others and being modest.
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I don't see why the "God" and the "Big Bang" theories can't go hand-in-hand. My personal opinion is that GOD made the two atoms ram into each other, thus causing the BIG BANG occur. I think it makes sense enough, but that's just me...
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None.  There is no God. \n\nReligion is a primitive attempt at understanding how the world works. It has been completely replaced by the Scientific Method, which is the greatest discovery of all time.\n\nThere is no more evidence for the existence of God than there is for the existence of leprechauns. Better to spend our time enjoying our wonderful world and helping our fellow beings instead of arguing about which brand of imaginary supernatural friend is the "right one".
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Yes I think so. Einstein spent most of his professional career trying to eliminate and crush the emerging science of quantum mechanics, which basically says that "God plays with dice' and that nothing is deterministic and you can't know anything for sure. This just rubbed him up on the wrong side, and he hated it. Einstein wanted to believe that the universe is predictable, orderly, elegant and everlasting. In this sense, I think he believed in destiny.
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This is going to be a tongue and cheek answer.  So bear with me.  If you consider god as an alien from a different universe whos technology is more advanced than ours,  god is the seed of science.  If you consider god as a spirit who directs us humble human beings, he is the parent of science.  And if you believe in god, why isn't his name capitalized?
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we probably wont figure it out any time soon. at least not in hawking's lifetime. and to all you religious people - the person asking this question clearly is not interested in hearing that GOD created the universe and that we should just stop exploring the world. you should just stop answering questions in the science section all together if you are going to be like that.
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With the way people argue -- just flip a coin.\n\nI for one am a big fan of science.  If I wanted to fall asleep or read a lot of little fairytales, I'd read the bible.\n\nAnd just because Einstein believed that there was design by intelligence, doesn't mean it's correct.  Like all men, he was fallible too.