Thursday, August 28, 2008

Faith in Popular Themes

The increase in faithbased articles, books, and arguments may be out of control.

"In one way, however, faith in science does come easier than faith in God--if fear is any gauge of how real we believe a thing is. To judge by human behavior, people are not trembling before the Almighty much. But many of those same people are scared silly by science. They are frightened by a climate stuck in the microwave of technological advances, frightened by genetic modifications that may--who knows?--cross cabbages with kings and produce a Prince Charles, and naturally they are frightened by the clouds of mushrooms being grown in the science cellars of Iran and North Korea."

Read the whole piece:

http://www.science-spirit.org/newdirections.php?article_id=744
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