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Hey -- a fellow engineer! I'm a mechanical engineer which means we bummed around learning everything from thermodynamics to electronics to electrical engineering to computers and would look puzzled if we ever opened up a scooter engine (but we could design it ;-P)

I too spent some time in my teens and early 20s investigating and seeking around -- my aunt was some type of "born-again" but is back to the Catholic fold now, so I investigated that, then read the Bible in detail (but I'm far from an expert, more like an idiot who knows how big an idiot he is :-), read the Koran, Avesta, Ramayana, went through the entire tired stream of authors who think Christianity is derived from Mazdaism and it turned out they were wrong. And, then in my 20s by chance I attended a parish in the UK where the priest had a bible discussion group -- not just reading, but reading, reflecting, questioning. All questions were open, like any Catholic study group. And I started reading the early church fathers, the history of the Church, the early heresies, the teachings of the Calvinists, Lutherans, Anglicans, Adventists. And in the end I'm stronger in my faith -- if other folks want to be Calvinist or even Moslem,Hindu etc. let them. If they ask me why I believe what I believe, I'll tell them. If they attack the Christian faith, then the gloves come off.

Nobody starts a war and not invite the Irish!

Hey -- a fellow engineer! I'm a mechanical engineer which means we bummed around learning everything from thermodynamics to electronics to electrical engineering to computers and would look puzzled if we ever opened up a scooter engine (but we could design it ;-P)

My undergrad was chemical engineering - process design and control. I do lean manufacturing, integration of design and manufacturing engineering, and demand flow systems.

And in the end I'm stronger in my faith -- if other folks want to be Calvinist or even Moslem,Hindu etc. let them. If they ask me why I believe what I believe, I'll tell them. If they attack the Christian faith, then the gloves come off.

I suspect that that is why we generally get along very well.