At sub-atomic level determinism breaks down leaving some things as not only unknown, but unknowable. The truly great scientists have always recognized some greater reality beyond the reach of their theories. Physicist Stephen Hawking believes that if we find a unified physical theory we would then turn to the question of why we and the universe exist. The Christian religion plays a major role in the British constitution and way of life. There is hardly a town or village without a church or other place of worship.
Religious study remains a compulsory subject within state schools.
In British courts of law oaths are sworn on the Bible in God's name. If nothing else the concept of God as a symbol of the absolute and infinite can only assist man to place his own finite existence in perspective against the whole of reality. Even the most materialistic atheist had better hope there is some form of God, for with no God there is neither purpose nor meaning, and without these he is nothing.