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Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, a self-described techie and Vatican astronomer, argues in a new book that a nerd is not necessarily a nihilist, and geeks can and do believe in God.

Actually, there are quite a few of us in the geek realm who are also Christians.
3 posted on 11/03/2007 7:31:01 AM PDT by JamesP81
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Right. I am married to a Silicon Valley technie and he is entranced by the idea that someday God will explain all those scientific mysteries and he will finally know the actual way things work. For him, curiosity, in part, drives him to be as close to the Lord as possible.


11 posted on 11/03/2007 3:36:07 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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