In the case against religious theism, what is so damning...

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...is not that the universe is so easily explained without invoking a god (it isn't), it is that the existence (and proliferation) of these theistic religions is so easily explained without invoking a god.

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I said it before and I said it again. You can argue your head green using the nature sciences against religion and you will at some point butt your head into the wall of absolutes.

When you take the social sciences you can explain why it is there without even reflecting on the idea of a god, you can show why religion came to be even if there is no god.

And as I have said before, this obviously doesn't mean this and that science is better than that other science or anything like that - they're just different.