The Spirituality Sessions

What make us skeptical?  What causes us to feel existential angst?  Well, you could say a lot of things.  Evolutionary biology depicts the natural world as resulting from an impersonal, mechanistic process.  A blind and indifferent series of random mutations and a system of natural selection over millennia shaping the wonders we see.  But that's just it, we experience all these wonders!  Since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks there have been some who strive for a physically reductive account of reality.  We want a neat and tidy explanation.  We also benefit technologically from understanding the laws of nature.  And yet here we are with our sense of meaning, autonomy, value, beauty, and awe.  Our account of nature does not seem to line up with the way we find ourselves in the world immersed with seemingly non-physical qualities.  We seem to want to understand reality but maintain the mysteriousness of ourselves and life at the same time.  Is there a way to reconcile these?