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To: Katelew who wrote (101879)	1/25/2009 11:20:06 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542970

All this discussion was intensely interesting to me and I thank you for raising the topic. I have been following it from afar and have learned a lot. I personally believe that one can entertain both a scientific and religious perspective as long one as one doesn't try to mix the methodologies so to speak--for me they speak to different parts of our human selves. I do think part of the reaction your comments provoked here is due to the fact that the "scientific community" is continually assaulted, IMHO, by "trojan horse" arguments posing as science by those who wish to attack science. The scientists themselves have no problem logically dismantling these arguments as they are well trained in the science methodology. The problem comes, IMHO, from the fact that this often muddies the waters for the non-scientific community who is often the source of scientific funding for the scientists. Therefore, such arguments are taken very seriously by scientists (as one would expect them to as it is perceived as a threat to their livelihood). So even if one was just being innocently intellectually curious one will be seriously confronted about such musings---as we have seen. Much the same if one was being innocently intellectually curious about the existence of Jesus among Evangelicals. Now if I've properly hit a balance point here everyone will be perturbed at me.