One needs to be sceptical / critical when trying to learn science and contributing to scientific knowledge.by research, etc. Has anyone experienced the contradiction between faith and science? Faith means believing something without proof, but any true scientist cannot do that - atleast, that's what I seem to think, although I know many famous scientists who were religious. I don't like the view that we must "segregate" the two - faith and science - into two "compartments" in one's mental life, because this implies duplicity in one's thinking patterns. Is faith required to explain what science cannot? If so, are we justified in pursuing faith, or should we pursue science alone, since it gives fact, rather than fantasy? I understand the importance of "the moral of the story", in religion - one must not throw the baby (the moral) out with the bath water (the story which is fiction / metaphor). But I hate going only half-way in religion - ie., not taking the Bible as literal truth.
2006-06-15
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