[ArGee]

The material world is relatively easy to understand (if you stay out of the more theoretical issues such as quantum sizes and relativistic speeds). It's the nonmaterial that requires the effort. You can dance, ride a bicycle, go out on a date, raise healthy children, and never really understand Principia, but you'd better have a good idea of what's in the Bible.

Shalom.

[LonghornFreeper]

I definately agree that you need to know the Bible, that is why I said many of the books. You can do everything you mentioned without knowing the philosophies of Plato, or Augustine, or Dante (trust me, I have done those things, and I haven't read any of the books on the list except the Bible and the Federalist papers). If you didn't have the sciences, there would be no cars take on dates, or bikes for that matter, and your children would be far less healthy without biology and medicine.