@akareyon

If the universe came to existence through a Big Bang - what was before the Big Bang?

Everything always existed, the big bang is just a reshuffle of existence. i am comfortable to say "i don't know" without invoking magical entities, souls and other wishful thinking

When exactly did the most complicated anorganic molecule "evolve" into the most primitive proto-lifeform?

It is irrelevant when. The point is the soul as something that lives beyond the body. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Just that you don't call it a set of data, you call it a "movie", or a "series", or a "music video", turning the TV into more than just the sum of its parts and the data into more than a succession of zeros and ones.

that doesn't change the fact that we are no better than an electrical signal (and we have evidence for that).

Careful, don't cut yourself with that blade :)

being a smartass doesn't cut it with me :)