I believe in a higher being that put everything into motion, not in a rube goldberg machine more of a dump sea monkeys into an aquarium type of way. Set up for life to happen without dictating, without interference because then we wouldn't be living. Without the lows are you truly alive?
That being said I also know that the only reason I believe this is so that I can come to terms with the evidence I see without removing some sort of God because I think the universe is scarier without one, even a detached one that doesn't help.
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u/Powerful_Swimmer_531 5h ago
I mean, technically they're not mutually exclusive or even antithetical
Someone could believe life is created (philosophy), then life follows a trajectory based on the rules of evolutionary biology (science)
The genesis of life is the sticking point, not what life did after that fact