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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I also believe in evolution, which I guess puts me into the athiest catagory, however i don't see god and evolution as exclusive from each other.
I think God happened and evolution took it from there.
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I don't think believing in evolution makes you an atheist. Evolution can play a role in religion. . .just not necessarily hard line Christianity. See my divine clockmaker argument.
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Originally Posted by photon
I don't think we can look to science to explain matters of Faith, just as I don't use faith to explain anything scientific.
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Agreed, I was simply extending the scientific fact of chirality using my faith. In a matter such as this faith is just as good an explanation as anything else at the moment.
As an aside, I don't see why Science must be segregated from the arts and religion. The dynamic between these topics continually pushes civilization forward towards (I hope) a better future. This is just my opinion however, it would be very difficult to quantitatively prove this relationship. That being said I'm not overly keen on the Vatican denouncing certain sciences yet embracing others.
Another interesting tidbit is that an incredibly large number of reknowned scientists were/are strongly religious. For example Sir Isaac Newton in his
Principia (the laws of gravitation and planetary movement) proved the mathematics behind the movements but could not conclusively prove the reasoning for these observations. He essentially attributed this to God. . . among other things. There is also that quote from Einstein that "God does not play dice with the universe". I guess what I'm trying to say with this is that a person can be as inquisitive as they like and also be religious.