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From: rfoy@netcom.com (Richard Foy)
Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution Survey Now Complete
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In article <4q6ul6$7qd@shore.shore.net>, LauraDavis <LauraDavis@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <4q4j3i$g8j@fcnews.fc.hp.com>, rrd@fc.hp.com says...
>
>This ain't neccessarily so. It's amazing how one can totally separate and 
>compartmentalize one's thinking in terms of these matters. Or what 
>contortion of reason one can apply in order to connect, say, science and 
>religious beliefs where they really don't connect.
>
>In one sense I find certain aspects of religion emotionally gratifying in 
>a powerful way and am tempted to yield to its influence completely and 
>overthrow reason allowing my faith to reign supreme. But I cannot ignore 
>my reason which tells me that much of what I was brought up to believe is 
>not true. And I must reconcile my faith and reason as best I can. A 
>religion has to be vitally connected to the world as we know it. And it 
>must connect us to the world as we know it in vital ways. Not disconnect 
>us with unreasonable fantasies. Faith like everything else needs to 
>evolve.
>
>Laura Davis, Director - The Biopolis Foundation - http://www.biopolis.org
> 
>LauraDavis@aol.com
>

This IMO is an excellent approach. It is sort of like keeping the
apples in the apple basket and the organges in the orange basket. It
is hard to do though.
-- 
"Do you know why Moses wandered in the wilderness for fourty years."(pause)
He was a man and men don't ask directions." --Nun in the play Nunsense

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