You've all heard the phrase "God did it." It's the answer every atheist hates to hear, yet loves to say. It is the characature of Christians in science. As the myth goes, Christians hate science. There are even some who will make the outlandish claim that Christianity held science back for 1000 years. See, apparantly, because Christians believe in a designer of the universe and everything in it, we don't look any deeper, we just say "God did it", and that is the end of it. This is, of course, an unsatisfactory answer, and atheists therefore say it is a false one.

Whenever an atheist used this argument in the past, I would usually have given the same answer. My answer, however, is long winded. Recently, however, I have realised that a better answer has been staring me in the face. The mechanic did it! See, if I took a class in vehicle design, and the tutor stood at the front of the class pointing to cars and just saying "the mechanic did it", I wouldn't accept the answer. I mean yeah, it's true, a mechanic did, indeed, design the car, obviously. But how did the mechanic build the car? How does it work? In the same way, yes, God made the universe, but does that really explain how the universe works? Would that really stop us from trying to understand the world a little more?