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Okay, how about this; with all your math and chemistry, where did the universe come from? What existed the moment before the big bang? Scientists discussing such matters are acting on just as much faith as priests and rabbis.
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I think the difference between religion and science is that when religion assumes something it is perceived as fact, sometimes even when it's been directly contradicted.
When science makes an assumption it's a theory, a starting point to work from which can change as evidence becomes available.
In short, scientists will gladly change their perspective on things when provided with proper evidence. Religious people will fight you to the death to convince you that the evidence is wrong when you show it to them.
Also, as for things being able to evolve into what we are now. Consider that, like Nate said, there are billions of stars and planets in the universe. In fact, I believe that a few hundred lightyears away they recently found a planet that's almost identical to earth and which, in theory, could sustain the same lifeforms we have here.
Now consider that the universe, with all it's planets, suns, stars is billions of years old and will take billions more years to collapse on itself (which scientists believe will eventually happen). If you would draw out the timeline of the universe, in all those billions of years our entire planet has only been around for about 4 billion years. Life didn't start here until a billion years later. If you consider that the universe is hundreds, if not thousands of billions of years old, we are only a speck on the timeline of the universe. Even if the planet takes another few million years to die and explode, we will never have been more than a glimpse in the timeline of the universe. A coincidence of trillions of factors being just right at just the right time.
When you consider all that you can come to the conclusion that there is no reason we are here. There is no meaning of life. We're just here, by sheer 1 in a trillion billion million chance. Nothing more. And when you think about that, I can understand why people want to have a god. Something that gives them the feeling they are here for a reason. Because if you think too much into being here for no reason at all, it can be pretty damn depressing.