8. "RE: Childhood friends"
In response to message #1
A data point: technically and scientifically oriented people aren't perforce atheistic. Quite the contrary. The way my dad, a high school Physics teacher and Roman Catholic, explained it to me is that science isn't a denial of God; it's the learning about and understanding the universe God created. There's nothing to reconcile between science and faith because there is no contradiction.
Bible literalists (literal Bibleists?) are something else entirely.
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