I once made a post around here concerning the relationship of God and science.
Science in order to be good science must ignore the existence of God. It doesn't matter if He exists or if He doesn't, for science to be good science it must ignore His existence. It cannot refute His existence, for there isn't sufficient evidence to refute Him. It cannot prove His existence, because likewise, there isn't sufficient evidence to prove His existence.
God must be kept away from science so as to prevent what I call "lazy logic."
Lazy logic is in essence, "I can't understand it, I can't find a way to prove how it works, so therefore it must be God's doing, end of story."
If Newton had applied that logic to what happened when the apple fell on his head, we wouldn't have his Laws of Gravity. If current molecular biologists applied it to their research, Cancer Research would not advance.
True, not all scientists who believe in God will fall for lazy logic, but to ignore His existence and to keep Him out of science is to avoid that trap altogether.
Quote:Well natural selection is a fact. Whether that is where we came from is the question. Remember, if we are a product of random chance, our thoughts our the product of random chance too.
We are not entirely the product of random chance. In reality, random chance doesn't actually exist as fully random chance.
Natural selection means that most random chances are actually eliminated in a very efficient manner that is non-random, hence the selection process of these random chances is non-random.
Furthermore our thoughts are not the product of random choice, because electrical signals do not travel randomly through the brain and in reality, travel along set neurones going to set and defined areas. If our thoughts were the product of random chance, then in all probability, the non-random process of natural selection would have remoevd us along with all the other bad random chances.