What is heaven?

[Akincana Krishna dasa]

Science can't explain the origin of life? I'd say "hasn't yet managed to" explain the origin of life.
You can't (shouldn't) keep your faith based solely on a god-of-the-gaps.

A few points:

I think the word "gap" in the expression "God of the gaps" is euphemistic.

The simple fact is, science can't claim to know where life comes from. It doesn't know.

If I'm walking down the road, and there's a little gap in the sidewalk, ok, no biggie, I can just hop over that and be on my way.

But if I'm walking down the road and all of a sudden there's a thousand mile canyon in my path, that's a big deal.

Why is the origin of life considered a "gap"? I say it's a huge canyon. It means science can't explain a huge, fundamental question. Calling it a "gap" is like pretending science can answer a question that it can't. The reality is that it's the type of knowledge gap/canyon that problematizes the entire conception that the universe and existence is a self-generating phenomenon and that life can be reduced to purely chemical phenomenon.

Next point: That doesn't "prove God exists." Gaps, and even canyons, in scientific knowledge don't prove anything except maybe something about the limits of scientific knowledge.

The point is more like this: There isn't a clear atheistic answer for the origin of life. There are guesses, hopes, dreams, speculations - not answers. There's a clear theistic answer for the origin of life. Why automatically push a theistic answer off the table when atheists don't have a better one?

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How do I know my book is better than the other guys? Well, one way to get an idea is to read them. In this case, I think that's really all it takes.

So, I assume you have read all of those other books. Since you happen to know that yours is better than all of them.

You don't have to read every children's coloring book on the market to know that Shakespeare is more sophisticated than all of them put together.

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Nonsense. Faith is the very antithesis of rationality. There can be no knowledge based on faith - only wishful thinking. The reality you live in is the basis and the precondition for knowledge - not faith.

It's your faith in the "reality you live in" that allows you to know this.