That should do for just about anyone, I suspect.
I find similar passion in a “dull, cold, scientific world.” You know where my god is? Where my spirituality is? It’s knowing that every atom in your body was birthed in the broiling guts of a star that once fantastically exploded. It’s breathing in the same air as the dinosaurs and it’s seeing the Earth’s scarred visage on the top of a mountain. It’s in realizing that you are the latest iteration in ecological feedback loop going back billions of years. It’s seeing the look in someone’s eyes that triggers a veritable cascade of neurotransmitters making you weak in the knees. It’s having a dragonfly land on your toe on a sunny day. It is everything except a never present phantom. It is everything except being forced to love and praise a tradition which you also must fear. It is physical life. Life examined, life realized.
Love science, love being an atheist, and love your blog : )
Thanks, that really means a lot to me.
Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive. God is real. I know it.
I’m sure life would still be very “interesting” without knowing Him, though, as you’ve said.
In many cases they are, especially when I am constantly asked what I think the point of continued existence is.
~Guess Who
Francis Collins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml0FqyFYfrU
I disagree with him philosophically in nearly every way.
Religion without science is blind, I agree, but science without religion is good science. He continuously interjects his religion into his science and distorts it.
You disagree with Einstein? Or Collins?
Either way, you have that right. The point is that science and religion CAN do DO live together for many people. Maybe just not for you.
In a word: growth.