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@seeker: I see it differently. Say that THE answer is a jigsaw puzzle. We don't have the box it came in so we don't know what the end result should look like. we only have say, 10 pieces of a 100,000 piece puzzle, they are not edge pieces and they are not adjacent pieces. There is no way to fit the 10 pieces together, even if you cut them (the pattern on the pieces doesn't match). We lay out the 10 pieces in what is the best way we can think of, and fill in some of the remaining space.
Religion and Science are mostly mysteries to us, so we best guess most of it. Science is man's attempt to figure it out and might be the way revelation was intended to occur - naturally. Religion tells us that we cannot fathom the mysteries and that all will be revealed in good time. Not a big difference in my mind.
I know families with "severely retarded" children - I am in awe of the intellect of these children. They cannot tie their shoes, they cannot feed themselves, but they have certain mental abilities beyond normal humans. One young girl can name every instrument in a full orchestra, while it is playing it's part - furthermore, she can identify the note being played by all instruments. This requires considerable brain power to decipher all of the instruments and all of the notes played concurrently and then to communicate that to anyone around. This simply astounds me, I want to build a school where I can learn from "severely retarded" people.
I've try not to ridicule anything (sarcasm is different ) - there is much to learn from everyone once we look beyond our own biases and find the gold nuggets they possess.
Note: I mentioned 42 in an earlier post. That is a reference to the Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", a trilogy in 5 or 6 books. Without spoiling the ending - the trilogy humorously explains what can go wrong with a scientific explanation of the universe.If anyone is interested, some folks have been building a Galactic Encyclopedia - it's been around a while, perhaps longer than Wiki. Is it accurate? Well, it's mostly harmlesshttp://www.douglasadams.com said:
Anyway, I've enjoyed this discussion - it's time to get back to work.
Peace!