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To: YHAOS; metmom; Alamo-Girl
...thinking analytically can cause religious belief to wane — for skeptics and true believers alike.

Thus the hypothesis leading to a series of experiments designed from the outset to confirm the hypothesis....

But my own experience disconfirms it. I can think both analytically and analogically — which is evidently something the designer of these experiments cannot do: he is stuck in analysis mode, and does not see that that which he is analyzing belongs to a larger system that these experiments deliberately ignore.

And that system, to me, is the Great Hierarchy of Being — God–Man–World–Society and their universal, dynamical relations. There is no book in the world that addresses and explains this Hierarchy better than the Holy Bible.

Based on that supposition, I see, for example, the Big Bang/inflationary universe model perfectly consistent with what God said in Genesis.

To me, faith and reason are not mutually exclusive; rather they are dynamically related and to a large extent mutually-dependent.

Even an atheist scientist has faith — in reason, not to mention the "scientific method."

So yes, dear YHAOS — this article looks to me like a "phishing expedition."

Thank you ever so much for the ping, dear brother in Christ!

104 posted on 04/28/2012 11:06:14 AM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through the eye. — William Blake)
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To: betty boop
Beautifully said, dearest sister in Christ, thank you!
105 posted on 04/28/2012 9:38:58 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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