[northernflame]

I think the title of the post is actually understated.

Scientists such as Richard Dawkins are actually out to dismantle the myth of a God or Gods, period. They don't stop at religion. And good for them.

Science is a process that deals explicitly with possibilities and probabilities.

So, can a scientist rule out the possibility of a creator that exists outside of the current technological limits to knowledge? No. But at a minimum what he or she can say is that the technology doesn't exist today to confirm it or rule it out, but that someday it likely will. Plenty examples of that throughout history.

Or, more stongly, however improbable it is that all of the complexity in the world arouse out of the big bang and evolution, to postulate a 'creator' that exists before or outside of the big bang is to introduce even more complexity and so, as the 'Intelligent' design crew so often does, you introduce even more uncertainty to try to explain the improbable.

It's a nice cop out but it doesn't get you anywhere if one is interested in the truth.