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Too many people forget, when the question of the existence or nonexistence of God is put forth, that if you take ten people off the street and ask them to define "God," that you will likely get ten different ideas. Some folks view God as the Cosmic underpinnings of the Universe. Many atheists and agnostics could to some extent accept this minority latter view -- as Einstein did. However, the more antiquated views are not so easy for scientists to accept. The church imprisoned Galileo for the last years of his life in the 17th century for simply describing the Solar System properly. This is the kind of thing that causes many in the scientific community pause, when it comes to certain old fashioned beliefs of dogmatic "old school" religious advocates.
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