Interesting post. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if we never did "get behind the Big Bang" - so there will always be room for those who want to believe in a personal authority figure out there outside of the natural universe to find One. However I think there is too much progress being made on abiogenesis to believe that some good, reasonably detailed plausible explanations won't ever come out.
Given that no present religion has the capacity to write a new testament, is it not perhaps time to start asking what God has been about, recently? We just finished a century about which God surely would have a new message, if he exists. 3000 years ago he was willing to provide guidance on good hygiene. Doesn't it occur to anyone to ask, why didn't God at least give us a policy on Cambodia?
Now there's some interesting food for thought!
Now, what pantywaist cried foul on CrabTree's 171? And why did the moderator go along?