Oh, wow. And, oh my.

[but_the_sea]

To those who commented on my "No Connection" journal entry, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I'm going to hold off on replying, because I want to actually think about what has been said, first. But ... wow. Y'all are The. Best. Evah. *warm hugs

Comments

[flewellyn]

Your oldest nephew probably needs to hear this from you. Of course, I'm sure you'll take care of that. It helps that, to an inquisitive young mind, you can offer answers that are logical and reasonable and hold together, rather than falling back on "Because I said so" or "Because that's the way it is", like the fundies do.

As for science being a means of approaching religion...you need to talk to my father sometime. He's the only rabbi I know who has a microscopy lab in his study, and more telescopes than torahs. (You really only need two or three torahs, tops; can never have enough telescopes.) He does indeed treat the pursuit of science as a religious experience. I try to do the same, though I am not clergy like him.

All this fighting between faith and science...you're right about God. I do think She would rather we put our time and energy to more positive uses.

[stevietee]

Right on -- I still feel torn between the two, but I have no idea why some people feel they're mutually exclusive.

[winterbadger]

I think it's very difficult for fundamentalists of any religion to handle science well, because (a) it is a separate source of authority and (b) it is complex and changing. Fundamentalists, by definition, crave unitary auhtority and a simpl(istic) credo. If it isn't simple and straightforward, it becomes confusing and requires the intervention of the human mind to think, to udnerstand, and to explain. And that's just WRONG! God is the only person who is smart enough to understand God; humans shouldn't presume to do that. God said exactly what He wanted humans to hear, and we should read that and accept it just as written. Questions are the devil's tools, and attempts to deconstruct, apprehend subleties/nuances/metaphors in scripture are attempts to put a human construction on God's word. And science is twice as bad, because it has all the same d*mn questions, and it sets itself up as being able to answer things that only God can know, as being able to challenge Scripture ("The Sun doesn't stand still, because the Sun doesn't revolve

[ebiannah]

It's so simple to merge the two, it hurts. How long is a day to God? If he (using for brevity) was there before "time" began, how long is his day? Couldn't a million years be a day for him, a billion, perhaps?

Really, turing dinosaurs into birds....someone's got a sense of humor. Either that, or T-rex ticked someone off.