Roger Morrison wrote:However in our "ponderings" we have a vastness of science and knowledge where they had a void 'filled' with imaginings. They had nothing else. Which does not devalue them in any way. BUT, I'm not certain how their lack-of-knowledge adds much value in our times when "God" has revealed so much via science???
Separating fact from fiction and mythology/legend from reality seems a worthy enterprise for all. Warm regards, Roger
Amen to that, Roger!
A long time ago, I was a born-again Southern Baptist.
As I started to expand my horizons, and started to read other things than church doctrine, I began to see that maybe all I had believed up to that point needed to be revised. All this stuff I treated as "doctrine" was just somebody else's attempt at trying to understand it all.
These days, I am a firm believer in trying to decipher the truth, using logic, reason, and maybe a little fatih, whatever that truth may be, or wherever it leads. Science, to me, just validates the wonder of creation. Now, whether the stories and myths that grew up around that creation are true, I seriously doubt it. Some of the stories are obviously just that ... stories.
However, I do see a awesome universe in which we live, and I do think there are things about it that we can't understand, at least not yet.
As my ex-father-in-law once told me, once you bite the apple of knowledge, you can't go back.
May all have a peaceful and prosperous New Year!
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. - Robert Orben