Bill, the 'something' I reference is energy. Energy is neither created, nor destroyed. I tried to express this as simply as possible.

"Need? In what sense?" I was responding directly to a statement from Paul Burke. The context and meaning of my statement should be clear enough.

Some quotes from Albert Einstein, one of many great scientists who were not athiests:

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details."