Reply #11: Kudos for the mischaracterization of the day..... [View All]

"Self-righteous" would be those who choose one camp or the other with no consideration for the space between; i.e. you.

Your opening sentence: "I'm above all of that petty bickering, and I've learned to live with BOTH A and B," completely misses the point of my post. I have not "Learned to live with" A and B, I have learned enough about both A and B to know they do not exclulde each other. That is completely different.

Next, we have; "Science and faith both search for answers to the unknown, this is true, but they come at the search from opposite ends of the spectrum. Science works methodically toward a definitive answer for specific phenomena, throwing out worthless hypothesis after worthless hypothesis along the way, while faith posits an answer to all of the unknown and does everything it can to shoehorn that answer into fitting every phenomenon."
That statements says you don't understand either science or faith very well. Faith (Not the variety you probably think matches the DU perception, but real faith" does not discount science at all. Science, contrary to your assessment, is full of leaps of faith, which is the great paradox of the DU opinion of faith. Very often when science rightly throws out a disproven hypothesis, it replaces said hypothesis with a new one that is largely faith.

Read the example of dark matter. Or, read the evolution of science's opinions on the behavior of matter, or elementary particles, of light, or gravity. Take your pick, but in each case, science has historically taken great leaps of faith with very little initial evidence. If you do indeed have an engineering degree, you should know this.

As to your last statement about "The glaring contradictions between all the claims of faith and the current scientific evidence...." only helps to support the idea that you don't understand faith at all, and perhaps science only a little better. When science says something like "We can't explain this, so it must be.......," then the line becomes blurry.

I'll give you a hint to get you started though; Faith doesn't mean using the Bible as a literal record or scientific tool. The sooner you drop the DU definition of faith and broaden your horizons, the sooner you might understand.