My own opinion, religion is for people who arent strong enough to face things on there own, they need the feeling of security that theres a giant dude stood watching them (and 6 billion onther people) simultaniously (with his 6 billion eyes?) Im an atheist, alwas have been, always will be. I was at a funeral the other day and realised it would have been a far easier experience to take had I belived in god, what with the bloke stood at the front talking about spending eternity with god, and that my grandfather would forever look down upon us until we were re-united. Sorry, but even that doesnt make me belive, once your gone. Your gone, again afterlife is just for people to scared to accept you dont go on forever in anyway. Evolution is pretty much an entirely proven, and entirely solid theory (fact?) and the big bang again is pretty much deffinatly somthing that happened, rather than this giant bloke, floating in space with a tape measure, sculpting magic mud into a planet.... Why havent you seen another big bang? Because the conditions for it to happen, pretty much never happen (my understanding anyway?) we were just lucky as hell. There probably have been many of them, in other galaxies... Sorry but IMO religion is utter bollocks.