God is Real

I gave you the results of a scientific study involving hundreds of scientists. The majority did not believe in God. When eminance was controlled for, disbelief in God only increased. You gave me a list of 11 scientists, most of whom died hundreds of years ago. As for Einstein, this is what he had to say about God: "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one." [1]"With primitive man it is above all fear that evokes religious notions - fear of hunger, wild beasts, sickness, death. Since at this stage of existence understanding of causal connections is usually poorly developed, the human mind creates illusory beings more or less analogous to itself on whose wills and actions these fearful happenings depend." [2]"The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God." [2]Eminent scientists (like Einstein) are even less likely to believe in anything like the God of Christianity. This makes sense, given the results of the study I mentioned. Einstein certainly never made god-of-the-gaps arguments, which is what you're doing here. Mysteries in science do not prove that God exists. Just because I am unable to explain this-or-that myserious force does not prove that the force is God. There are 1,001 questions that me and my "non-believing scientist friends" have never been able to answer. "Science has an unanswered question—big deal. Science has lots of unanswered questions. It also has a marvelous track record for answering them." [3]"'God did it' is simply a repackaging of 'I don’t know.' It tells us nothing new. I’m no smarter after hearing 'God did it' than before." [3]Re: The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics"Another prediction of the creator hypothesis also fails to be confirmed by the data. If the universe were created, then it should have possessed some degree of order at the creation—the design that was inserted at that point by the Grand Designer. This expectation of order is usually expressed in terms of the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the total entropy or disorder of a closed system must remain constant or increase with time. It would seem to follow that if the universe today is a closed system, it could not always have been so. At some point in the past, order must have been imparted from the outside.Prior to 1929, this was a strong argument for a miraculous creation. However, in that year astronomer Edwin Hubble reported that the galaxies are moving away from one another at speeds approximately proportional to their distance, indicating that the universe is expanding. This provided the earliest evidence for the big bang. For our purposes, an expanding universe could have started in total chaos and still formed localized order consistent with the second law.The simplest way to see this is with a (literally) homey example. Suppose that whenever you clean your house, you empty the collected rubbish by tossing it out the window into your yard. Eventually the yard would be filled with rubbish. However, you can continue doing this with a simple expedient. Just keep buying up the land around your house and you will always have more room to toss the rubbish. You are able to maintain localized order—in your house—at the expense of increased disorder in the rest of the universe.Similarly, parts of the universe can become more orderly as the rubbish, or entropy, produced during the ordering process (think of it as disorder being removed from the system being ordered) is tossed out into the larger, ever-expanding surrounding space. As illustrated in figure 4.1, the total entropy of the universe increases as the universe expands, as required by the second law. However, the maximum possible entropy increases even faster, leaving increasingly more room for order to form. The reason for this is that the maximum entropy of a sphere of a certain radius (we are thinking of the universe as a sphere) is that of a black hole of that radius. The expanding universe is not a black hole and so has less than maximum entropy. Thus, while becoming more disorderly on the whole as time goes by, our expanding universe is not maximally disordered. But, once it was." [4]Sources[1] Letter from Albert Einstein to Guy H. Raner, September 28, 1949. Found in The Believing Brain, by Michael Shermer. Page 184.[2] Religion and Science, article by Albert Einstein. Appeared in New York Times, November 9, 1930. [3] Bob Seidensticker. "God Did It" Explains Everything...or Maybe Not. http://www.patheos.com...[4] Victor Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis