Religion and evolution

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4. So these things link religious "faith" and science...how, exactly?

The first part of (1) is simply declared without evidence; we don't know what the universe arose from. And how this requires religious faith to be injected into the equation remains unexplained. The second part of (1) is pure science, and also require no injection of, or intersection with, religious faith.

The "fine-tuning" argument in (2) is deeply and irretrievably flawed as an argument for the existence of "god"

(3), (4) and (5) also require absolutely no intersection or "common ground" with religious faith.

All of (6) is also simply declared without evidence. Further, having a "spiritual nature" (whatever that even means) need not involve religion or "faith" of any kind.

Collins, like a few other scientists, enjoys playing into the need of a lot of other people for there to be SOME room left for god when science has done its job. But what the object of this "rational discussion" he's trying to start might be also remains a mystery.