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"it takes a “leap of faith” to NOT believe in a deity

This is how I've always felt; I can never understand how people can't see deliberate intelligent design in Creation.

But, we're all made differently; and no doubt, that is part of the plan of Intelligence, as well. Many of the discoveries that have been made by atheists, will eventually play a part in the final recognition that 'Intelligent Design' did create us. One of the things that amuses me greatly is that so many people think that we've figured everything out already; and that religion and science will never meet, and become partners - despite the fact that scientific discoveries have been moving toward that anyway, for a century. (A lot of scientists seem to be afraid of expressing what their guts are telling them :-)

(When I imagine hitting the lottery really big, one of the things I always dream of doing with that money is endowing a chair at some great research university, to actually study, without prejudice, the possibility that we are both spiritual and physical 'beings' - something like PEAR, at Princeton :-)