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Faith is not Anti-thetical to Reason

As a teen there was a certain pleasure in the pseudo-intellectual affirmation of atheism and decrying religion as superstition. (That such an exercise was an "affirmation" should have revealed its fallacy, but alas, the idealism of youth is blind!) As our cultural pendulum swings away from the pull of the Religious Right there is once again a rising assertion of the intellectual superiority of being areligious (not irreligious, but a-religious). And some folks are using a carefully culled reading of scientific discoveries to reassert the claim of faith as synonymous with superstition. Which I find hysterical because the more I come to understand about quantum physics and the more I read about the findings of geneticists and the genome project the more Truth I find in Genesis. The Christianity of Paul and the early Church wasn't one where you parked your brain at the door. The letter to the Romans is incredibly challenging intellectually if we're willing to give more than a cursory read. The Cappadocian fathers wrestled with existential questions as deeply and more as any of our current philosophers and critics of religion. With that said, you may find this blog posting by Stanley Fish interesting. http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/god-talk/?th&emc=th

Garden...

Ok, this will likely get pretty boring (or even MORE boring) but I am geeked about eating stuff I grew...
Yesterday I transplanted zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, basil and green bell peppers. I think these should all be producing about the end of June, if not before. Someone else has some cucumbers in as well.
There are a dozen cantaloupe plants up in the bed, too. Stephanie ate the strawberry that was ready yesterday. There had been one the day before I thought was about ripe. Apparently so, as the birds had eaten half of it by the time I got there in the afternoon.