I've been coming around to this as well, which surprised me as I thought I had left religion for good. > release you from the burden of coming up with an answe

I've been coming around to this as well, which surprised me as I thought I had left religion for good. > release you from the burden of coming up with an answer to some very fundamental questions about life. I'd even modify this to say "impossible burden". Science reduces to the model: P(A|B). No model is ever safe, since we can never observe the generator of B, and changes in B can turn the whole model irrelevant. So the pursuit of some perfect scientific model of the world is an endeavor with 0% probability of success. Hence, it seems the wiser strategy is to have a strategic balance between religion and science. What that split is, and whether it's most advantageous to do so at the society level or society of mind level, I don't know.