Life, the universe, and everything

We've seen that there is no role for God within the evolutionary process. But perhaps a role can be found for him outside that process. Darwin might have explained the origin of species, but there are still many mysteries left that believers claim support the existence of God. In this chapter, we'll consider three. First, natural selection can only occur when there is something to select, and Darwin's theory says nothing about how life began in the first place. So there we have a possible role for God. Second, even if evolutionary theory and science in general explain much of what we find within the universe, we have yet to explain the fact that the universe exists at all.