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To: koan who wrote (554059)	3/9/2010 7:29:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571150

Koan, most religions out there are indeed "tribalistic" in its theology. A lot of it stems from polytheism. Just create a deity for every natural phenomenon you can't explain. Zeus does lightning, Atlas carries the world, etc. Those religions you can easily eliminate. That leaves the monotheistic religions, of which there are only a handful. Of those, the only one that emphasizes salvation by faith is Christianity. But even the followers of other (monotheistic) religions know that there is more to life than what is seen and what can be measured even in a relativistic (or quantum mechanical) world. One of my atheistic professors at Cornell mentioned the concept of "God of the gaps," but he missed the point. Faith and science coexist because God isn't just squeezed into the "gaps." (That's a very limited view of God, of course.) Instead, the more we discover about the physical world, the bigger God gets, because we start to fathom the depth of God's miraculous creation. Even Einstein would agree with that, though he is no theist. Tenchusatsu