No, I just don't want to call my ignorance "God" or have other people mandate that their ignorance (or science's ignorance) be characterized that way. That doesn't mean I'm godless. You do see the difference, right? I'll give you my used adage:
"Science fills the cracks in gods, or conversely, God fills the cracks in science."
I have my personal metaphysical views, but I don't try to get others to buy into them, nor do I hold them as "absolute truths". What do religious texts have to say about flight? Well, they are limited by the anthropological context in which they were created. If Mohammed was around now, and the Koran was written today, it would talk of all the things about which we are familiar: toasters, TVs, airplanes, the Internet. As it was not written today, I imagine that those things are absent. Not because God shuns them, but because the people who wrote the documents didn't have them.
Similarly, if a nomadic Bedouin people write about the Creation, they put it in their social context. It will speak metaphorically about their world as they understand it. God will use clay because they don't know about DNA. Et cetera. It really is that simple. |
