Reply #206: Actually, science has done a much better job of that

[Alcibiades]

than the non-scientific models that are the main alternative. In fact, more work has been done to improve our understanding of exactly that question in your lifetime than in all of prior human history. Some of the greatest minds in all of human history, people alive today, are working on this very question.

It is not the role of religion to explain everything, and if you think it is, then your theology is weaker than your cosmology. Evidence of our so-called irrationality should inspire us to seek to transcend our limitations, not surrender to bronze age barbarism.