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I'm a tenured Phd in
theological studies at Layola University Chicago teaching dissertation
in practical theology.
I'm not 15. I'm quite the literal Oldfag.
I don't live in a basement, I live in a dormatory that's older
than your great great grandmother's dried-out bones.
I know how
the world works. I have been an anthropology teacher for ten years,
geology (life sciences teacher) for five. I recieved my first Masters in
Philosophy when I was 24. my second masters in Geology when I was 26.
My undergraduate degree in Anthropology when I was 21.
I have
attended hundreds of services by a multitude of religious intitutions. I
have studied, and visited the countries and cultural traditions of
hundreds of religions. I have interviewed thousands of people friends,
family, and strangers on the topic of religion, science, and philosophy.
I have lived an early life of religion, and a later life of
science. I have never known God to be more than a "fill in the blank"
excuse for the unexplainable, for the posterings of uneducated people,
for those who are gravely impoverished - a hope to place their faith.
Science
has been wrong numerous times, but that's what science is - a trial and
error measure of a theory. There is no "this is right until proven
wrong". Their is no "this is wrong until proven right" on the reserve
side of that. Science determines one must have an open mind.
Religion
cannot withstand these ideals and thus has never been right, and in the
same respect never been wrong. Think of the countless religious beliefs
that have been as popular as Christianity, come and gone, washed away
by evolution of ideas and practice. Far numerous than "times science has
been 'proven' wrong" are the religious beliefs (some antiquated) that
have been expired. |