Thus it seems that even God is bound by the uncertainty principle, and can not know both the position, and the speed, of a particle. So God does play… - Stephen Hawking

Anaximander, a friend and possibly a student of Thales, argued that since human infants are helpless at birth, if the first human had somehow appeared on earth as an infant, it would not have survived. In what may have been humanity's first inkling of evolution, people, Anaximander reasoned, must therefore have evolved from other animals whose young are hardier.

Descartes, for instance, in order to preserve the idea of free will, asserted that the human mind was something different from the physical world and did not follow its laws. In his view a person consists of two ingredients, a body and a soul. Bodies are nothing but ordinary machines, but the soul is not subject to scientific law.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works.