And there's probably a few like me wondering what the fuss is about, finding evolution and religion not incompatible,
If life merges from complex chemical interaction and energy input under the right conditions and evolves thereafter, what need is the for religion as an explanation?
Here's the problem with you conjecture. For about 60 - 70 years thousands of intelligent people have tried to get chemicals to produce life and failed. What they have proven is life can only come from life. If intelligence can't do it chance can't. Therefore the whole evolutionary faith Paradigm is built on blind faith.
How life started is a different issue to life evolving. Life evolves. How life got started being more difficult to determine. It may be an extremely rare event, just the right conditions must be present, but we don't yet know what these are.
Which does not mean: we don't know this, therefore God.
