http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/08/bill-nye-the-science-guy-hits-evolution-deniers/
Well, first off, it's nice to know this guy is still alive and kicking. I guess that explosion incident was just an insensitive rumor...
Anyway, as a kid I had trouble trying to reconcile my understanding of the Universe, because in one ear I was being told not to question God and His doings from those who held a somewhat literal interpretation of the Bible, and through the other, I was listening to science shows that supported Darwin's Theory of Evolution and a physicalist view of the Universe - the two seemed mutually exclusive for quite some time to me, so naturally that resulted in a lot of cognitive dissonance. After a while I settled for the middle road (Philosophy) and realized I'm actually no closer to understanding the Universe than I was when the big questions hit around age 11 or so.
Right now, at this point in my life, I identify as Agnostic. But I do still try to live as if I were religious - probably because some part of me still is...
:)
ReplyDeletechildhood allowed me to marvel at the universe
believe in 'Something'
Adolescence made me scoff at the idea that something larger than me was on my side
Acid showed me all of this is ludicrous and magical in nature
Science helped me make sense of why people would believe in this God Nonsense... and somehow didn't contradict my Acid understandings of everything being made up of one magic... differentiated only by perception
we're all part of this one big organism...
the threads of this understanding are intricate and endless...
I long to talk with you about it someday