No disagreement. The ability to reconcile surface contradictions does not appear to be something you can learn. Scientist know from their work that they will never answere the deep questions, and do not try.
They can, however, tell when observable facts conflict with literal interpretations of religious texts. St. Augustine had the answer.
I regret my conclusion that scientific topics should be considered poisonous in the religion forum. The topic of the boundaries of science and faith is interesting to me, and is one that I believe is worthy of discussion. My reluctance to discuss it here, however, comes from the simple fact that a few people don't have any manners and ruin things for everyone else.