Science and Religion cannot overlap.

[Jenny A]

Pickup. The point was simply that not everything in our lives is within the purview of science. No-one can live consistently with the view that only those things verifiable by science can be held to be true. Rather, science has a particular scope. Personally, I use it to investigate health and disease (and how we can best alleviate the suffering caused by disease). I don't use it to judge good from bad, for example. I love science, but I think those who try to subject everything to it misunderstand it.

I agree that no one uses science as the only method for action. Frankly the exercise would be exhausting. And I certainly don't choose my friends or pastimes based on science. Nor do I think science can establish good or bad.

But I do view the reasons I choose to do what I choose to do as natural. My moral choices may feel innate but they are informed by: instinct which is hereditary and actually innate and; culture, which also evolves and is taught formally and by immersion. If I want to know why I behave the way I do, or why my fellows behave the way they do, I don't fill in the gap with god. Instead I look at culture (which includes religion) and biology. Both the question of is there a god; and why do people believe in a god or god are ultimately scientific and historical questions.

The god hypothesis appears to be lacking in evidence. The Christian god hypothesis appears to be often at odds with the evidence. I do not entertain ideas at odds with the evidence long.