Here's what scientists do... just because they don't know something, they don't automatically attribute it so something else, ie. god. Yeah, I agree, it's pretty freaking confusing as how stuff exists, but just because it's confusing doesn't mean I will try to fill up that void of confusion with god.
A good book to read that provides a look at a scientist who struggles quite a bit with religion is "Contact", by a local Ithacan (we have a planetwalk in his honor), Carl Sagan.
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{Ellie speaking}"But imagine that your kind of god - omnipotent, omniscient, compassionate - really wanted to leave a record for future generations, to make his existence unmistakable to, say, the remote descendants of Moses. It's easy, trivial. Just a few enigmatic phrases, and some fierce commandment that they be passed on unchanged..."
"Joss leaned forward almost imperceptibly. "Such as...?"
{Ellie again, a bit later}"You know what I mean. Where are the burning bushes, the pillars of fire, the great voice that says 'I am that I am' booming down at us out of the sky?"
"But a voice from the sky is just what you found." Joss made this comment casually while Ellie paused for breath.
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Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
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