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You can't prove a negative, Mark.  Science doesn't claim one way or the other as to whether or not there is a god.  Individual scientists might believe their is no God, and some do, in fact, believe in God, but that, like any belief, is just a belief, and not science.  To claim there is no God is no more scientific than to claim there is a God.  There is no claim being made by science on the question of whether or not there is a God.  The only 'claim' that is being made, is that life was created by an intelligent designer, AKA "God".  Since that is the only claim on the table, the onus is on those who make that claim to prove it.  Most scientists I know would not make that claim because the evidence supports randomity.  IN my own personal belief system, I'm a pantheist, I believe that life has a spiritual source, but it is not an intelligent designer, it is a river from which all life springs, just like life emerges ultimately from the ocean and organic ponds.   My view is that in order to uphold any spiritual beliefs, it shouldn't conflict with science and pantheism doesn't conflict with Science, which is why I go with it.  Who knows, maybe life occurs by chance, and that IS the 'design', and that is what nature is.