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first, i just want to point out the topic title is a bit misleading. pirated software and free software are not the same. that being said, i do and intend to continue to use free (esp. open source) software, as well as contributing to many of them. many of them are as good, and sometimes even...

i would mention it then and there, so my choice isn't even in the list.

there's a lot more to it than just making guesses. a theory allows scientists to make testable predictions - if it was just a guess, the preditions would be wrong. however, they are repeatedly correct.

religions are of the supernatural (gods, souls, etc) and are by definition outside of science. islam and christianity have lately been trying to sport things in their holy texts as being proven by science, but this is inherently wrong. everything that thy claim has been proven is either things...

not a problem when you consider that an ameoba has a genome roughly 100 times the size of ours, with gradually decreasing sizes between. couple corrections - there aren't theories, just a theory. in science, competing theories can't exist, since a theory is, by definition, the best explanation...

Georges Lemaître no assumption - time is a requirement of pre-existence. measurments and calculations show that time would not exist. again, wrong. all claims in science must be supported by evidence, and be able to withstand peer review. otherwise, it is just a belief and not a theory or...

no - we say that we make no comment on the supernatural. if there is, there is. if there isn't, there isn't. either way, it's irrelevant to science. what if nothing really exists and it's all a figment of my own imagination? without evidence, it's a worthless speculation. m theory neither...

since they are 2 different theories, i'll have to answer them seperately (also, being a biology major and not a cosmology major, i can answer on evolutionary theory better). the big bang theory, in short, is the expansion of space-time from a singularity to what we currently have - and still...

we don't put away the idea. it just useless in science to use the supernatural as an explanation for what is currently not understood - a 'god of the gaps' argument. atheists don't believe in any god or gods, nihilists posit there is no god. this is also totally irrelevant. that isn't a reason...

to reiterate on MadameSkylark's point - the theory of evolution doesn't explain the origin of life for the same reason that theory of gravity doesn't explain lightning - it's something else entirely. they aren't even the same scientific discipline (evolution is biology, abiogenesis is organic...

personally, i'm an atheist and see no real use for religion. at it's best, religion gives us a bad reason for good behaviour; at it's worst, it gives us great reasons for commiting atrocities. religion holds us back scientifically, divides societies, and causing more turmoil and death than any...