"I value being able to explore the questions of the universe from the perspective of a variety of traditions."

Does your exploration allow for you to accept that there is no driving force behind evolution? That's the trouble with exploring things from the perspective of traditions. Those traditions can take you along the wrong paths. And yes, I'm right: there IS no driving force behind evolution. Plenty of things that I'm wrong about but evolution having no driver and Liverpool being the greatest team on earth cannot be argued with.