Do you equate scientific and religious explanations of life's origin and history as alternative theories?

They do not "equate" because they are radically different kinds of ideas. Science does not yet have an explanation for the origin of life. Abiogenesis is a conjecture for how it might have occurred.

It's a long way from theory. The primary claim of religion (simplified) is that "God did it." In my view, to interpret Genesis as a scientific explanation for how God did it, reflects a major misunderstanding of this form of literature.

But even if you take it as a scientific 'explanation', it has no explanatory value. The most likely scenario is that science will never be able to either prove or disprove the idea that "God did it." If you use the word theory in the way that science uses it, no religion offers a theory.

They offer only a claim about ultimate cause. That doesn't make the claim more or less valuable, or more or less true. It's independent of science.

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