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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (83116)	9/9/2008 2:29:51 PM
From: biotech_bull	Respond to of 541929

So they believe what is convenient for them? Not necessarily. As Kate pointed out it's an evolutionary process. One could look at religious symbolism as a tool or training wheels that let you glimpse the greater truth. Once you are a believer or achieve the cohesive personal testimony as Kate put so eloquently, there is no need for the symbolism - the faith is greater than that. The conflict between science and religion can be traced to the fact that they straddle a chasm. Science and rational thought cannot cross the chasm but faith does so effortlessly. The way I see it Science and Faith are non-euclidean parallel lines that can only meet in infinity I've mentioned the limits of science before - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Godel's theorem etc etc - I don't think rationally speaking we can even get our heads around parallel lines meeting at infinity <g> The tools that faith uses to cross the chasm are outside the realm of science and hence difficult to accept for a rational viewpoint- may even seem downright ridiculous. This faith does not even have to be of a God - someone who understands the beauty of nature or the deep symmetry of the universe has probably found it. Nothing in that sentence suggest a belief in God to me I guess it depends on how one defines divinity - and whether one can find it in trivial things such as friendship, beauty and nurture