Sure, all we needed was yet another blog or web page all about how science and faith are in total opposition to each other - or in total agreement. It's all been done, you say, and so you are right.
But there lies the problem, I think. We have become entrenched, we who care at all, on our own side of the matter, without reference to one another. Science does not listen to faith nor faith to science; to do so would feel like a betrayal of one's own truth.
I am hoping, perhaps against hope, that this blog might be different. I really don't want to disprove one side against the other. What I'm hoping for is honest open dialogue, mutual repect, and growth.
The Myth is that the disagreement started when Galileo got condemned by the pope. This I doubt. But even if true, I don't think that one scientist with bad manners and one pope with a short fuse should determine the course of dialogue for the rest of us.
Anyone in science or religion is welcome to contribute here. We want to hear it all. But don't comment if you won't listen to people who disagree with you. Last thing we need is more thick skulls and self-righteous, self convinced sticks using up blogspace.
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