You’re quite right that many awesome scientists in the past and many leading scientists today are men and women of faith. I don’t think that your religious beliefs affect your abilities.
Also, it seems to me that a lot of your arguments focus on what you’d like to be true, and not what is true. It isn’t that there is no “need” for a God. In fact, it would be wonderful if there was. Unfortunately, in my view, there just isn’t. Quite frankly, we are animals. To think that we deserve to be otherwise is just human arrogance.
Evidence of no God? There’s also no evidence of no Allah. How do you reconcile that?
Because of the evidence of design in all of nature, there is more proof of a designer than accident. Way more.
The belief in “allah” offers no Free Will. I am just going with the religion that doesn’t exclude any human being on earth. One where you can practice or not practice and get your head cut off.
Christianity (Dinesh D’Souza) said it best in his book, “What’s so Great about Christianity”. It is no accident that the Christian cultures were the most innovative and creative. Why?
Because Christianity offered the most freedom within itself to debate and learn. That freedom led to a vast expansion of knowledge from the printing press to the Enlightenment.
The reason why other cultures did not flourish....no freedom, tyranny, oppression, chaos because no underlying ruling paradigm of belief—the tower of Babel. Christianity preached decency to ALL people, even unbelievers. It is far superior in creating happiness and freedom, particularly compared to islam or other non-free societies.
It is a quite brilliant set of behavior for all people to prosper and be free.
My Nigerian professor said it best....they didn’t believe in moral absolutes, so you could not build trust and loyalty and devotion, bribes and chaos—no economic powerhouse could exist in a country w/o moral absolutes.
(his non-Christian words, not mine). He knew, he lived in a country that was a hell-hole because of moral relativism.
Belief systems are the most important aspect of a society. Cultural Marxists know that—that is why they are working 24/7 to destroy that structure of family and Christianity. Without it we will be like every other festering place on earth and need a master. If not God, it will be man.