"Science is constantly proving itself over and over again. If you take any Holy book or any other Fiction and destroyed it...in a 1000 years time, that wouldn't come back just as it was, but if you take any science book or any fact and destroy it...in a 1000 years they'd all be back, because all the same tests will give the same results." This came from Ricky Gervais (an Agnostic Atheist), while in an interview with Stephen Colbert (apparently a Christian) back in February: He makes the statement at about 3:36 And while this sounds nice...the logic behind it is fundamentally flawed in the following ways: 1. Science disproves more than it proves...for every one generally accepted theory/law we have (gravity, thermodynamics, etc) there are countless other DISproved theories that simply don't work because they can't be replicated and observed repeatedly. 2. He assumes holy books are fiction. They are not. 3. He assumes religious litera...