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      Asked by Sam and Albert to Anais, katy, Lauren, Richard, Stuart on 9 Mar 2016.
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        Anais Kahve answered on 9 Mar 2016:

        Hi Sam and Albert, I was brought up as a Christian but I don’t practice Christianity. I don’t feel I have the need to look up to a God or the need to believe in an afterlife. But this might change in the future.

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        Richard Friend answered on 9 Mar 2016:

        No. I ask too many awkward questions for that sort of thing. Religion always felt like it gave unsatisfying answers for me, but I work with a lot of people who do have a faith, so science and religion isn’t a one side or the other deal.

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        Lauren Laing answered on 9 Mar 2016:

        I am not religious, but like Richard said, many scientists are religious!

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        Stuart Atkinson answered on 16 Mar 2016:

        Like Richard I’ve always asked too many questions because I wanted things explaining properly, and I quickly found that religion wasn’t always able to give the answers. However, to be fair to anyone who looks up to a god, it isn’t religion’s place to have to explain everything, and it isn’t fair of a religion to expect it to! Religion requires faith, which is not something measurable, and science requires measureable facts.

        However, this doesn’t mean that science and religion are mutually exclusive – I think there can be room for both and we should always be open-minded and respectful of each other’s beliefs. Religion has been consistently demoted by science over the last few hundred years eg Darwin proposed that we evolved rather than we were created, then someone said the Earth wasn’t created in 7 days…but if you want to be religious you can always find a space for your faith. If you go back to the big bang, we can’t say what happened before it…so I guess that’s where the concept of god as a creator can still reside.

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