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I believe it literally both existed and didn't exist, no more than six thousand years ago. I spend my Sundays singing His praises. Whenever I have a decision to make, I think 'What Would Schroedinger's Cat Do and Not Do?' and I'll vote for anyone who says they do the same, even if they blatantly don't believe a word of it. And I heard Obama was a secret Einsteinian, so I won't be voting for him.
That's utterly crazy, of course. And what half of Americans do, with a different brand name.
Anyway: yes, there are big and complicated and counterintuitive ideas in science. There are, in fact, bigger and more complicated and more counterintuitive ideas than were ever made up or hallucinated by the bronze age loonies and chancers and politicos who cobbled the Bible together. As an atheist and a scientist, my universe is an older, larger, richer, stranger one than that of any literalist Christian. And that can be scary, but the solution to that is striving to find out more, not cowering with a comforting lie.
