I. Science vs. Religion On one side it is hypothesized that there is no God. On the other side it is hypothesized that there is a God. The theist’s position is less clear than the position of the atheist. The theist certainly means that there is a conscious being who governs the Universe, but beyond that it is hard to say what exactly God is. Atheists sometimes satirize belief in God as belief in a magical white-bearded sky man, and they say that science has disproven the existence of such a sky man. But belief in God is certainly not the belief that a magic sky man built oceans and mountain ranges, and the sun and the moon. It is hard to articulate what exactly the believer in God believes, but it is something like a strong sense that there is more than just the material world, and that our lives are part of a deep drama that is not articulable purely in the terms of material substance.