text: Yeah, maybe its just because I am slow.  But to me and I think many others science offers the illusion of understanding.   There is the notion that the workings of life are understood or that evolution is understood.  You see it in this comment stream that many believe "evolution" is a reasonably well understood topic.   It has taken many years for me to really accept that current science cannot quantitatively model and thus demonstrate understanding of most aspects of life.  We have no quantitative model which demonstrates the transition from isolated chemical reactions to a closed system of self-sustaining chemical reactions as exemplified by a single cell.  Yet we believe that natural random forces successfully mediated such a transition.  Any natural process that we cannot quantitatively model is understood only through faith.