[Peter]

Belief in God has always sought refuge in what happens to be inexplicable at the time. In the past this has included the movements of the planets, the nature of the sun, the phenomenon of lightning, the origin of species. As these have yielded to scientific explanation, theists look somewhere else for something yet to be explained and ask "How do you explain life, the self, etc?" The fact that a phenomenon has still to be explained does not automatically make it a justification for the deity hypothesis.

Peter