Why do those thunderstorms come and ruin our crops?
Why did that friend betray me?
Why did that other friend save me?
What caused all these animals to be alive?
What caused me to be alive?
What makes a seed grow?
Why do we die?
What happens to us when we die?
All these used to be religious questions because religion started out as science. It was the thought and the act of trying to figure out why things are the way they are, why things happen.
It did a pretty good job of it too, for a long time. But religion got stuck because it did not have a method for self-correction. Too much was invested in the answers they came up with to allow those answers to change. It is pretty much the same way now.
That is when religion and science split. Science moved forward with the addition of a way to self-correct, the scientific method, and religion did not.
Drawing, quote and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily