Well, one thing that overly reductive God-in-gaps argument tend to overlook is that there is scientific theory that postulates how something could have come from nothing. I can't say I fully understood it when I was reading it, and it was extremely speculative, but to imply that science is completely silent on the issue is misleading at best. Really, though, it all comes down to this:
It doesn't seem like it should be all that hard to say that science is concerned with questions of how, and religion questions of why, and leave it more or less at that. But unfortunately, we still have guys like Comfort and Cameron pop up from time to time claiming religion can do both and creating conflicts where there aren't any. The good news is positions like theirs have been drifting toward the fringe for some time, and the idea that science and religion are irreconcilible seems to be losing ground just everywhere but Kansas.
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Originally Posted by Zhukov
Even given a more complete materialist understanding of the universe, science could never answer the question why. Considering this question demands stepping into the metaphysical muck.
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