Does Science Make Belief In God Obsolete?

I recently found the website for the John Templeton Foundation and their “Big Question” essay series through a friend of mine’s tweet. The big question he linked to was “Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?”

There are a few short essays that run the gamut from yes to no to yes… if and no… but.

My answer? No.

Science is simply the toolbox we use to understand and, in some instances, control the world around us.

It helps us to explain the world, yet it cannot, and did not, create the world.

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http://hardofthinking.wordpress.com/ Derek

I’m trying to understand this statement: It helps us to explain the world, yet it cannot, and did not, create the world.

So how does God come into this? Do we just take a logical leap of faith from “we don’t know how the first nanoseconds of the universe started” to a fully formed god that is more complex than anything we have any experience of? I don’t get how that works.
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Science is simply tools. I say this not derisively, but as someone who has spent the last 20 years as a scientist.

Science, in and of itself, doesn’t actually “do” anything. Can we use those tools to manipulate the world around us? Sure.

What’s beyond our understanding, I’m not sure. Me, I’m more in line with Newton’s clockmaker view. I don’t think we know, and I don’t think we’ll ever know, and for either theology or science to claim the opposite is ridiculous.
http://hardofthinking.wordpress.com/ Derek

I follow. I’m having a really hard time with the enormity of the leap that says “I don’t know therefore…. tada! One fully formed, completely impossible, entirely outrageous God. And I believe in it”.

In other words how do you get from “science doesn’t have all the answers” to “here’s a god I can believe in”?