Simple: there are things we humans do not understand. There's things we know we don't and things we don't know we don't. There's things we think we understand, but in fact are incorrect. & etc. Spooky Action At A Distance aka: Einstein's Clock in the Box mind experiment. They actually carried this out, it's there, the impossible was proven to be real.
One of those things we don't know is what makes us human. Sentience? Salience? Sapience? Not commonly found in nature, especially all 3! But we humans have them & other fancy words too.
If souls exist? Then there is an afterlife & more things we currently don't understand. If they don't exist? It's highly likely we simply cease to exist when we die. Believing that souls set us apart from (most) animals has no cost. If we're right we win, and if we're wrong we won't care because we'll cease to exist. Simple really.
Abiogenesis & the origin of the universe. God created it, on purpose. Maybe He created the Big Bang? Why not? For what reason? We don't know, we can only guess. (Yes, I'm a Deist, eh?) BUT the odds against intelligent life, or almost any life, to "accidentally exist" after only 13.4 Billion years is astronomical. Add to that: where did the BB come from?
So: Believing in God and Souls (and Evolution too, of course) is just as scientific as the current scientific theories. No religion required. All science is based on faith too, eh?
Look mate, I'm sorry, but I'm not paid enough in my off time to write the absolute essay I need to unpack, critique, and dissect everything wrong with what you've written here.
What I will tell you, from a processional in the field, is that you fundamentally misunderstand the...aggravatingly named "spooky action at a distance", to about the same level as the average pop-science enjoyer misunderstands the concept of observation.
The only one I'll poke at, because it's quick and easy and I can't help myself, is this one:
All science is based on faith too, eh?
All science is based on evidence. I don't have faith an object will fall towards the earth if I hold it up and release it; I have evidence to identify the natural pattern that this is so. I don't have faith the sun will rise in the morning; I have evidence of the rotation and orbit of the earth and how my specific location upon it turns towards and away from the sun in a cycle. So on and so forth.
Science is the opposite of "trust me bro". It's instead a series of "no, no, hear me out"s coupled with the occasional "huh, that's funny..." when you find something novel.
Simple: there are things we humans do not understand. There's things we know we don't and things we don't know we don't. There's things we think we understand, but in fact are incorrect. & etc.
Spooky Action At A Distance aka: Einstein's Clock in the Box mind experiment. They actually carried this out, it's there, the impossible was proven to be real.
One of those things we don't know is what makes us human. Sentience? Salience? Sapience? Not commonly found in nature, especially all 3! But we humans have them & other fancy words too.
If souls exist? Then there is an afterlife & more things we currently don't understand. If they don't exist? It's highly likely we simply cease to exist when we die. Believing that souls set us apart from (most) animals has no cost. If we're right we win, and if we're wrong we won't care because we'll cease to exist. Simple really.
Abiogenesis & the origin of the universe. God created it, on purpose. Maybe He created the Big Bang? Why not? For what reason? We don't know, we can only guess. (Yes, I'm a Deist, eh?) BUT the odds against intelligent life, or almost any life, to "accidentally exist" after only 13.4 Billion years is astronomical. Add to that: where did the BB come from?
So: Believing in God and Souls (and Evolution too, of course) is just as scientific as the current scientific theories. No religion required. All science is based on faith too, eh?
Look mate, I'm sorry, but I'm not paid enough in my off time to write the absolute essay I need to unpack, critique, and dissect everything wrong with what you've written here.
What I will tell you, from a processional in the field, is that you fundamentally misunderstand the...aggravatingly named "spooky action at a distance", to about the same level as the average pop-science enjoyer misunderstands the concept of observation.
The only one I'll poke at, because it's quick and easy and I can't help myself, is this one:
All science is based on evidence. I don't have faith an object will fall towards the earth if I hold it up and release it; I have evidence to identify the natural pattern that this is so. I don't have faith the sun will rise in the morning; I have evidence of the rotation and orbit of the earth and how my specific location upon it turns towards and away from the sun in a cycle. So on and so forth.
Science is the opposite of "trust me bro". It's instead a series of "no, no, hear me out"s coupled with the occasional "huh, that's funny..." when you find something novel.