Will science and education render religion obsolete?

[David S]

No I don't think so. Science is based on observable facts as we know them. Religion is based on faith. I keep the two separate.

[David S]

Our human bodies are incredibly complex and sophisticated. It seems to me that we either believe that we came about by design created by a highly  intelligent being, or we believe we came about by evolution. I can believe that evolution plays a role, but it seems like there are some serious holes in that theory, if you assume that there is no other influence.

Quite a few years ago scientists showed that with a mixture of hydrocarbons subjected to electric discharge you could create amino acids, building blocks of life. The next step is to get from amino acids to DNA. But no one has come close to doing that in a laboratory.

If we could show that some of the steps needed to get from the primordial ooze to human beings could not have happened by random chance, as evolution requires, then what are we left to believe?