1. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #157289 by RecoveringTheist on April 8, 2008 at 9:07 pm

Professor Dawkins I admire your patience in the face of stupidity! Also I don't know how you keep your composure when you are cut off after beginning your retort or explanation of a particular question asked of you.

I very much enjoyed the topics of debate and wish I could have been in the audience in which to help support your efforts of clear thinking (although you needed no help)

2. Religion is not incompatible with Science: 'Non-Overlapping Magisteria'

Comment #84226 by RecoveringTheist on November 1, 2007 at 12:51 pm

The first step in getting Religion and Science to coexist.

1. Religious people need to stop trying to kill us every time science and those that study it shake corner stones to holy books, articles, and such. I am mean come on people! As we discover that the holy texts are mistaken isn't this something to be excited about? I mean how would you feel living your whole life practicing something that wasn't really true? I pretty sure that I grew out of pretend play as a young child.

As my mother lamented when I went off to the University of my choice and not theirs (Temple University)I was doomed to Hell as higher education would not permit me the glories of heaven. Funny thing is that I went to a Lutheran School, but of course because it wasn't strict enough in doctrine I would be corrupted, but my retort after graduation was that my "corruption" began when I bought my first copy of Darwin and hide it under my pillow at home.

I severely doubt that we could have non-overlapping religious and scientific beliefs as those religious beliefs always dictate and govern how are to view the universe around us, and a purely scientific approach would be to try and explain things around us without such prejudice.