[Ignatz]

What I question is why a person of faith would throw up his hands and decline to look for a scientific explanation, saying instead that somehow at some point, that we can stop looking for a scientific chain of cause and effect, and instead it must have been designed. As for spirituality, I don't see why looking for scientific explanations is inconsistent with spirituality.

I hope no one of faith would decline to look at scientific explanations for our existence.
Indeed, the more scientific explanations the better! It just buttresses my argument: cause and effect work so well in accordance with the laws of physics that come from...where? Lightning in a soup? An explosion of universal energy (meaning all of the energy contained in the universe, allowing that energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared) from nothing?
Bwahahaha! To paraphrase what I said before: Who has a "religion", now?

[HayekRocks]

It just buttresses my argument: cause and effect work so well in accordance with the laws of physics that come from...where? Lightning in a soup? An explosion of universal energy (meaning all of the energy contained in the universe, allowing that energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared) from nothing?

I do not think that serious scientists contend any more that life came from lightning in a soup, and the physics of the big bang do not necessarily involve creation of energy from nothing. There is also observational evidence for the big bang.

Do you now notice that you have proceeded from rejecting the primary theory of modern biology to rejecting much of modern physics? I notice you have a Dobsonian mounted telescope on your profile. Do you reject that the red shift of galaxies comes from expansion of the universe? Do you reject Lemaitre's version of the General Relativity field equations? That is a lot of science to throw in the trash can.