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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
You're using big words again, but don't you have this backwards? Evolutionary biology recognizes no "ultimate" cause for anything -- only a series of proximate causes that happen to have resulted in all of our lives. It's the creationists who have a preference for "ultimate" causes.
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In terms of behaviour, biologists believe that a lot of the interactions, behaviours, and beliefs that humans understand as meaningful are merely adapted behaviours in service of natural selection.
Christians believe that God can be both distant and personal. So you can say that there is a great mystery underlying our existence, and that man is merely one small piece in a vast puzzle created by an unknowable, and indeed, terrifying deity, but you can also believe that you are a creature able to have a personal connection with this God.