“Science and religion always went hand-in-hand in my house, and things like God Creating the World and Evolution weren’t contradictory. They flowed into and out of each other, and that made sense to me. It still does.” — Teresa Jusino, from Religion and Science Fiction: Asking the Right Questions
I’m not Christian anymore, and I don’t believe God Created the World. I am a religious person, a pantheist, who sees the world in both scientific and religious ways. I’m often frustrated by people who therefore judge me as stupid or anti-science or dumb for thinking it. (It’s the thing that often infuriates me with BoingBoing sometimes).
Jusino’s quote is how I see it. The things flow together and apart, and are sometimes contradictory. I don’t have a problem with that. Religion can be contradictory, and science shouldn’t be. They are different things and serve different purposes, and don’t really exist in the same continuum, except when they do.
