Can science answer the 'meaning of life', apart from Religion

I would first like to state that I am very sorry if I offended you in any way. It was not my intent nor my priority. Also I try to make the best out of my life with my goals and experiences. I don't treat them like something I have to do or get through but something I have to charish and remember. Its like the saying ' its not the destination but the journey'. I have seen this a lot in my life, going through school, training for a job etc. Things like this are what make life special and worth living. Have you noticed when people are on their own a lot that they seem sad and depressed. This is why being with people and living for someone or something makes life so special. Since I am already rebudling your points from bottom to top I will talk about your evidence of the existence of god. First of one problem with both of our arguments is we didn't show the citation for our work so if you want me to rebudle your point on the story of Jesus and many other stories being in seperate books and literature please send me a link. To start saying that it is 99.9% accurate is a little odd. There have been many translations and some scriptures are yet to be found and some aren't even included. Also it is not historical as there has been no physical evidence to support these stories. For these stories to be true or even known as history there would need to be some archeological evidence for these stories. Stories like Noah's ark have failed to do this. There has been no show of a struggle of the animals trying to swim or any fossils of species going back to their natural habitats. I would like to state that you cannot trust the legitimacy of the bible as it is based on wroting s and no physical or observable evidence. I do have to say some stories have great messages that should be passed on. For your next points I would like to say I am extremely sorry for what happened to your friend. I experienced something like that's other my friend when I was about 11. He died from a heart disease that was never diagnosed. He made me realize something myself. Life is so precious that we can't just spend it with the hope of an everlasting life but the belief that we should make the best of the life we have. I know that in those 11 years he lived he died happy and that is my purpose. Not to help others to get my key to heaven but to do it to make them happy. I don't donate my time to get service hours but to know I made a difference. These are things that comfort me. If he died with the intent of helping and being happy that is what comforts me. To your next argument on the pope I understand why you don't believe in the role of a pope but he is the person who represents the Catholic faith. He is like the president or prime minister of Christianity. Also saying that you 'can't find this any other religions' is a very biased generalization. There are many religions that can hold these beliefs and stating that is like stating you know no other religion holds these beliefs. What about Muslims and the quran, and many other religions. I have a Muslim friend who answers many of my questions about his religion and there have also been many muslim, christian Muslim atheist etc debates. I am just wondering how many times I have heard someone say that 'it takes faith to believe in the big bang'. So what your are saying is that a scientific theory that has evidence such as carbon dating and nuclear dating is going to take more faith then someone who was just there created an entire universe in 7 days. Also we do have an explanation on how it happed. It was a large burst of energy that started the expansion of the universe and its particles. Also I am starting to feel like this debate went from the meaning of life to the creation of it. Now that I am done with responding to your points I will make my own. My first idea is habitability and how our life came to be. If we were to be moved by let's say 500 meters closer or further to the sun odds are we would experience some problems. But the thing is we have shown adaptation. This is why is say the goldy locks zone is so big. If we where created closer or further our species would adapt. This is shown in Darwin's study of the finches on the galopogos islands. As time passed on these introduced species of birds adapted to their environment and changes were shown. For more info click on this link.http://www.pbs.org... Anyways this shows that slight signs of evolution have been shown in short periods of time. The thing we often have trouble comprehending is how large changes can happen in millions of years. But fossils have shown us this and people still say its false. One problem shown in the bible is the unexplained stories and illogical claims. In Noah's ark we are predicting that we can feed millions of animals shoved into a boat that was made with archaic tools and still survive. Also why do people only believe in some parts of the bible. I believe this is because Christianity would no longer be a religion of peace. Imagine if we used the laws of Leviticus. It is only a few pages after the creation story many people believe. This I'd because many of these laws would seems unacceptable by our modern society. This brings me to my next point of morality coming from the bible. How can morality come from a book that disregards woman, encourages slavery, and has a leader that like loves genocide. It is because society cherry picks the bible and gets the parts that would be moralt acceptable. I believe that you can't say you believe in a book even though you only use a few parts. To conclude I very much enjoyed this debate. I feel you made great points. I would like to once again apologise if you felt hurt in any way. I hope you keep your positive attitude and I hope the people reading and voting make a non-biased decision. Don't vote for me because your agnostic or atheist and don't vote for him because you share the same beliefs. Vote based on your opinion on who made the better points. I want this to be a non-biased vote. Thank you and I hope you keep up your spirit. I hope we have another debate soon. My final question is ' what is the most comforting part of religion'. Thank you