October 07, 2013 08:39AM
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When I was young I was at least casually religious. I took the approach that learning about science was indeed making me more familiar with God's great creation and specifically that understanding how atoms worked was just as important to understanding the works of God as understanding the Bible. The path this took me down is that I eventually discovered that we really understand so much about how the world works that doesn't require any "magic" that there's really not much left for God to have done. We have all the big stuff pretty much down pat. While it might not be perfect we have a pretty firm understanding of how the universe was created, how the human species came into being, etc. All that was left was an invisible being that really was just angry and would do horrible things if we got out of line in even the slightest way except most of those shows of force we know to either be untrue (e.g. the flood) or distinctly improvable (water to wine).
It's quite clear to me why religious people don't want you to embrace science, because it systematically will remove everything God did from being what you believed as a "fact" to being the quaint interpretations of ancient people who didn't understand how the universe worked. There's still some room in there for morality and such, but as my previous post suggested the Bible doesn't need to be a "fact" in order to make those truths real and valuable.
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