There is still no evidence for the Higgs Boson, other than a mathematical convenience/proof, but that does not stop me believing that the Higgs Boson will one day be proved to exist. However, I am less certain about the wave/particle duality business ("It gets even worse when the thing believed in doesn't make sense to the point of paradox"), and as for quarks I have never been able to accept the existence of these. (btw, I do have a degree in Physics).

Just because I choose to believe in one aspect of science, something with limited evidence at best, and possible not to believe in other areas of physics, this does not make it a stupid act, it is part of scientific questioning.

So why is religion so different from the teachings of Professor Higgs, Albert Einstein, or Isaac Newton. Some people actually believed that Newton was right until a genius (and a theist) came along to correct them on certain matters regarding quantum physics and relativity. So who is stupid; the atheist who blindly follows science, or the questioning theist?

My view is that belief in God[/i] is entirely irrelevant to the bigger questions in the world. What is far more important is how individuals use their religion or lack of it; for the good of those around them, or to hurt others. Only in this way can one person judge another. But now I am straying dangerously close to quoting religious texts, and we can do without that!

Has anybody noticed how busy this thread is this evening? Clearly there is nothing on television - the drug of the nation...