I don't understand what is meant by "separation from god." Does it mean that human souls wind up in some other place where god does not interact with them? We have that now, and we call it "Earth." Is it some other metaphysical realm, where the damned wander with nothing to do and no purpose in life, or are they able to do stuff? Can they build societies and invent stuff and throw parties, or is it a universe where balloons and chocolate frosting do not exist?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould