Faith, Reason, God and Other Imponderables

As someone who sits astride the fence between science and religion, I found this article particularly interesting.   For me, I think that the physically manifest world is simply embedded within a larger spiritual existence and I have little trouble with the relationship between the two domains.  I find it fascinating to see how other people square their spiritual feelings with their lives in science.

By Cornelia Dean – NY Times

Nowadays, when legislation supporting promising scientific research falls to religious opposition, the forces of creationism press school districts to teach doctrine on a par with evolution and even the Big Bang is denounced as out-of-compliance with Bible-based calculations for the age of the earth, scientists have to be brave to talk about religion.

Not to denounce it, but to embrace it.

That is what Francis S. Collins, Owen Gingerich and Joan Roughgarden have done in new books, taking up one side of the stormy argument over whether faith in God can coexist with faith in the scientific method.

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One Response to “Faith, Reason, God and Other Imponderables”

  1. Aeryn Honey says:

    Science and human emotion will always collide untill science really found out the mystery of god and thier supernatural powers

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