I<\/span> guess I never realized it, but our non-believing folk are quite excited about the idea of disproving the existence of God. Apparently, it will halt mankind from waging war, smoking, and feeling awkward about gay sex, while simultaneously leading to a brotherhood amongst men via increased time spent on the Holy Internet. But honestly \u2013 though these goals send shivers of warmth down my typing fingers \u2013 I would venture that the atheist is almost too<\/em> excited, in that every new discovery \u2013 or old discovery given a new name \u2013 becomes the All in All, the Explanation for Religious Thought, The Lamb of Science Who Taketh Away the Ignorance of the World, and so on, and thus forth, until I can scarcely think of new ways to make fun of such\u00a0presumptuous\u00a0over-eagerness. This was made rather\u00a0embarrassingly\u00a0apparent throughout the\u00a020th century,\u00a0which witnessed rather brilliant physicists making very dumb claims about the\u00a0origin of the universe, while evidence for the Big Bang simply sat and laughed at them.\u00a0The reason we have science fiction\u00a0on infinite universes, multiverses,\u00a0infinite cycles of Bang and Crunch, Father\/Child Universes, etc.\u00a0etc.\u00a0is because every time a scientist thought that they had gotten around that pesky\u00a0Big Bang they \u2013 instead of checking whether their theories had any bearing on reality, or\u00a0any evidence to back them \u2013 they wrote really cool\u00a0books, which later became subject matter only tolerable by Douglas Adams \u2013 God rest his soul. Ah, but those were noble, heady days. Now we endure this:<\/p>\n (Original Video Removed by BBC)<\/p>\n