Ok...I'll believe you about Darwin if you stop using language like 'he ceased to believe' (by his mid 30's) if he actually didn't believe in any serious way before that :) -- Of course this is no indictment against being religious, or that a scientist can't be religious, just that he wasn't.
At the risk of being repetetive, though, the take home message of this post wasn't about Darwin. It was about the reasonable supposition that Christianity provided the inspiration, impetus and the conditions from which a science could and did grow and that the men responsible for it believed in the Christian God and that the science developing actually glorified God, as did their use of our reason. I think it also points out that one can be an intelligent person (even highly intelligent), a scientist, and a deep thinker and still believe in God. I highlight this because in the "new atheist" attacks on religion nowadays, religious people are often characterized as non-thinking, backward, and barbaric and will-believe-anything sort of people. Of course there will be always be some people like that, but they can just as well be scientistic as religious. --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4954 or send a blank email to leave-4954-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
