Science vs. Religion: (Chapter Two) (Humans)

by David Turell , Monday, February 21, 2011, 05:01 (4819 days ago) @ xeno6696

In my case, keep in mind, growing up as an only child in a single-parent household, you gain a "moving" perspective. Meaning, that which does not move you forward in some way, is something that you necessarily subsume to a higher imperative--be it survival or whatever. 
> In a grander perspective... probably by about the age of 20 I started mellowing from a militaristic atheist perspective because I started realizing that the question of the existence of God was utterly an inconsequential dilemma. -> The author Chuck Palaniuk (wrote Fight Club) said that one thing he was toying with in that book/movie was the idea of growing up fatherless. All the atheists he knew, were coincidentally only children to single mothers. That observation chilled me to the core; learning how to live life without a model, forces you to find your own way. -You and I come from very different backgrounds. With full loving family, economically very comfortable,I planned on being a doctor at age three, and went straight thru without any detours. In a way that is why I retired so young. There were too many other things that needed to be done, and a huge pile of money was never a goal. As I have noted before, I feel as if my enire life was guided. As a kid I always wanted to be a Texas cowboy, and I am one totally by accident, not planned. Just as your background has colored your current thinking and attitudes, so has mine, but I don't think I am as complex as you. I've never had to be. But I did have to settle my agnosticism, while at the same time expanding my experiences in life. I want you to image me on a Grand Canyon Oar raft trip, with a book on particle physics for reading matter. I haven't read a novel in years, as I've studied the issues of particles and cosmology. I was convinced of a UI by the mid 80's, but couldn't convince my wife as she died of lung cancer in 1992. That in part is why I did the book, and in part pushed by the publisher of my first book. He pushed me to read Adleer, and take a close look at Darwin. I'd never had, and accepted the theory without thought. It is an unprovable tautology, filled with hole, upon reasoned discovery. Yes, evolution is real, the current 'how' research is still under discovery. Lewonton's thoughts are right on the mark.