[Nataku X]

Agreed completely. My belief is that what science and Christianity are seeing, are two different things. Let's take the Mona Lisa for example.

Science can explain away each brushstroke individually and break down the painting into individual molecules, and, someday, it may be able to explain away each step how Earth came into being.

However, science cannot derive any meaning from a painting, or show why it is meaningful and why it invokes emotion in all of us. The meaning of the painting and its impact on us are infinitely more important to mankind than its chemical composition.

Similarly, we might be able to explain how we came into being (whether YEC or evolution) but we will never explain why we bother to exist as concious beings full of love, joy, hate, anguish, etc., rather than mindless entities aiming to reproduce--nor will we explain why the universe bothers to exist in the first place. Anyone who says that the universe is all that there is ignores these greater questions.

[jennyp]

miffed-that-nobody-pinged-me PLACEMARKER.

[50sDad]

SCIENCE is an exellent tool to measure what, how much, and what if.

CHRISTIANITY is an exellent tool to measure Why?

A smart workman always uses the right tools! ;)