Grow some Common Sense!

I was messaged this question/situation and I just can't believe the audacity of some teachers. I understand where this educator is coming from (I've had the urge to do this but I have more sense not to) but no scientific discipline should ever be used to advocate "atheism" or any doctrine for that matter.

I have a question for you to ponder...My friend's daughter in the 8th grade was asked this by her Physics teacher:
Prof Richard Dawkins claims that science has proven that there is no God. Please correct his logic.
What is the answer from a physic's perspective?

My Response: Dawkins and God
Dawkins is an atheist. He's also a scientist. What he proposes in the physical sciences revolves around the lack of concrete evidence to support that a God exists. So in this respect, the most he can legitimately argue to an 8th grader is why does the student believe what they believe?

I'm personally agnostic and when this discussion somehow manages to come up in class (around evolution time), I typically start off by saying, "People ultimately have the freedom to believe what they want, but I personally don't act that way. So regardless of what you learn in class, there is no argument that I can legally present in a public school to convince you that God does or does not exist. All I can ask of you is to question any evidence or lack of evidence from a scientific perspective." The students can go from there and they either dismiss my notions or they start to actually ask themselves these questions.

In physics, it is impossible to imagine where a God would fit into all of the complex mathematical models and the astronomical diversity that we've only scratched the surface exploring. I mean it's easy to understand why people buy into a God ideology when they are fully unaware of the number of galaxies and planets that exist which resemble our own. You just have to force yourself to ask the question, if there's intelligent life on other planets in other galaxies, would they believe in Jesus Christ and the Judao-Christian God, probably not.

Even looking at the number of religions on Earth, which enters the thousands, you have to wonder if everyone else is wrong... Why not believe in Thor, or Zeus, or the Great Ju-Ju of the mountain, or the Judao-Christian God, or Yewhew, or Allah? Is it right to claim that my beliefs are the correct ones and that everyone else is wrong? Or is it more likely that everybody who believes in a religious ideology is wrong? This is not a physics argument, this is a philosophical argument. This is also inappropriate for a science classroom to convince students that their religious beliefs are either justified or somehow on the chopping block during the course of a semester.

To an 8th grader? Geez, at least wait till they can comprehend the IDEA of a universe.