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For, what ever we may (want to) believe - we have to deal with reality.

So, I'd guess, I still see rather conflict between religion and science, unless religions turn to the "natural" and then could converge in a way that makes sense and is reality congruent at the same time. What puts me off of religion is the "supernatural". Religious people that greatly impressed me are the religious naturalists. The way they are now, it is very easy to fall into the trap of wishful thinking. If religions, too, could evolve, then I would evaluate them anew. I find the answers science can give - and Big History is very good at this - much more satisfying and meaningful than what religion, as it traditionally has been, has to offer. In my experience, it can become a rather fruitless enterprise to try and find answers to some of the questions he defined as religious: "Why, for example, does anything exist at all? Why do living beings suffer? Where can we find perfection? What is really going on in the Universe?" - First, when would you ask questions like these? - When you are unhappy or in distress and when you are not ready to accept the imperfections/the reality of life. To me they are philosophical questions, and some of them can be answered by science, such as: What happens when we die? (biology) Why do human beings have a sense of rightness and wrongness? (biology/psychology) How can we find a meaning for our lives? (psychology) Can we ever find final release from concerns over sickness, oppression, isolation, and guilt? - the answer to this would be combination of different sciences such as biology and psychology - and my answer is: when you die then you are finally released from all these concerns, until then you have to live with them and deal with them one concern at a time. In the second paragraph of the part "What about religion" the author says that the following are religious questions: "Why, for example, does anything exist at all? Why do living beings suffer? What happens when we die? Why do human beings have a sense of rightness and wrongness? How can we find a meaning for our lives? Can we ever find final release from concerns over sickness, oppression, isolation, and guilt? Where can we find perfection? What is really going on in the Universe?"