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"If you can explain the processes of life in terms of empirical data, what do you need the supernatural for? "

But that could only be accomplished to a certain extent, wouldn't it.

Even if scientists could prove, without a doubt, that all life evolved from a chemical reaction, wouldn't that still leave the question of how the chemicals came to be in the first place?

I don't see any incompatiblity with evolution and natural selection, and religion. But the 'big bang' question still remains because it leaves the question of what happened before that occurred and what made it occur to begin with.

JMHO

There is a difference between proximate and ultimate causes. Evolution deals with the former; religion deals with the latter. To say we know how life reproduces, adapts and survives is not the same as knowing what brought it into existence in the first place. Science will undoubtedly tell us more about those processes but it will never answer the question of who or what is behind them. I do believe God made the world and established natural laws to animate life itself and of course among all the creatures of the world, He implanted man with a soul and with moral awareness. There is really no conflict between evolution and religion because evolution deals with the things of the present and religion deals with what was and with what is to come. Evolution is about the state of nature; religion is about the life of the world and human anthropology.

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I don't see any incompatiblity with evolution and natural selection, and religion. But the 'big bang' question still remains because it leaves the question of what happened before that occurred and what made it occur to begin with.

The business of organized religion since I was in college and began to think the whole thing through didn't make much sense..no empirical data for sure...and the story...WOW..and to think it was told at the time nearly 2000 years ago...when they were burning folks at the stake for being witches and such 1500 years later...leaves a lot of questions. I have worked out to my satisfaction answers to most of the thoughts...with one major exception...cruising along at night 8 miles from the earths surface and above most of the earths atmosphere and then looking out of the cockpit window and musing...where does it end and if it does what's on the other side. Now that has me puzzled!! Big Bang is a possibility...of course then who provided the spark for the big bang? I get so "cornfused" at times.