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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the earnest and polite PP who detailed her thought process:

I appreciated your story, and I wanted to share something with you that might make you feel better.

omg!  Do you think this forum is your audience?

There is no contradiction between faith and reason, because there cannot be.  God is Truth itself.  He authored science, and rationality, and logic.  Anything that is true is from God, wherever truth may be found.

Read Fides et Ratio, or Faith and Reason, an encyclical about this issue.  You don't need to turn your brain off to have faith.  Faith completes your reason.

As to this specific issue, literalist creationists are few and far between in ANY faith.  Actual creationists serve as a convenient straw man for those who choose, of their own free will, to discount uncomfortable questions about a Creator.

Most people of faith know that creation stories are meant to convey fundamental truths about our Creator, such as that there is order and purpose to all of creation, that humans are capable of knowing right from wrong (which is how we are made in His image--God does not LOOK like us, we are LIKE Him in that we have free will and can choose to love), and that there was a beginning to creation, whereas God is I AM, no beginning and no end.  Creation stories are not scientific treatises.

This conflict between faith and science was created by a certain strain of intellectuals during the 18th century.  Some of the greatest scientists the world has ever known have been people of great faith who drew closer to God by trying to understand His creation better.  The ongoing knee-jerk assumption that faith and science must conflict is simply unfounded, but culturally accepted.[/quote][/quote]

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