I’ve never understood why people so often keep the two separated. Like, if you already believe in a god, why not interpret things like physics and chemistry as how your god set the world up to run? I totally get that religion is complex and divisive, but at an individual level, it seems like such an easy “problem” to resolve.
God is basically a placeholder for something we don’t understand yet. It should have gone away when we understood how things like sun rises and such worked, but most humans can’t handle the thought that death is final. Exploiting peoples existential crises about death is a great way to manipulate the population for power and wealth.
While there’s no solid answer for what existed before the big bang and what caused it to happen, there’s no reason for God to be the answer.
At any rate, even if there was a higher level being that created the universe, to think they actually care about what humans do with their lives is just pure hubris.
I’ve always thought that the biggest difference between religious people and atheists is that we’re willing to just say “I don’t know”.
I don’t know if there was something before the universe, how it’ll end or if there will be something after, or if we’re in some kind of simulation, or whatever else. But I’m willing to leave it at that and I don’t feel the need to point to some deity to fill in the gaps of my knowledge.
