I’ve been discussing evolution again This question was asked of me, my response follow

And what is evolution’s answer to the meaning of life?

This is the part you’re hung up on. Your approach is very normal for someone who has gotten their evolution education in the church. However, as I’ve been trying to explain, what they’ve taught you there regarding it is completely wrong not just in the mechanisms, but also in what it’s role is in science.You can’t seem to shake this "Evolution is to non-believers as Religion is believers" thing. Evolution is based off of decades of religiously-benign research and observation. Science makes no predictions about the status of God because if it’s observed in nature, there must be a reasonable explanation. One that doesn’t need the hand of God or some magical intervention to work. Evolution is not a belief system because it is rooted in fact that had been observed and corroborated time and again by many avenues of study ranging from earth sciences to genetics and everything in between. It’s not belief driven because belief implies something that is potentially unbelieveable, miraculous, like religion. ToE makes no mention of an afterlife, big bang, or meaning of life because it isn’t meant to explain any of that, and was never meant to even broach the topic in any way. It’s only goal was to explain what happened AFTER life arose on this planet. You see what I mean? You’re approaching evolution like you would Islam, Judaism, or Hindu.Your comparison of ANY religion or belief system to evolution is a comparison of apples to oranges. Religion deals in the soul and the afterlife, whereas evolution attempts to explain how organisms change and adapt over time. How is that even comparable?

And here you thought I was going to bash religion. Like the title says, religion and evolution don’t mix because their two different things, not that their repellant of one another.