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At some future time, I shall also address the complete unhelpfulness of taking the line, "God is not part of science, so any explanation that includes God cannot be considered." This is a line that rules out certain theories a priori. The no-God-here approach destroys honest intellectual effort before it even begins.

I would like to point out that Science does attempt to answer questions of nature without including God in the equation. You may think this is wrong of Science to do, but there are many examples of why this is the right thing to do. I have used quite often on other threads the example of Benjamin Franklin and the lightning rod. He was chastised by the Church because they taught that lightning was the wrath of God... and the lightning rod was an attempt to stop God from punishing those who deserve it.