Thanks for the book suggestions.

Samuel Skinner: I agree with what you said.

John T.: as far as people who do things that, at first glance, seem hard to explain, you might enjoy Shermer’s book Why People Believe Weird Things or Taleb’s book Fooled By Randomness.

As someone who is a scientist and a Christian, I personally truly enjoy a great dialogue with someone of a different opinion than me. It is possible to exchange ideas without arguing or attacking, and it is often quite enjoyable .

I assume you have also had some good experiences of dialogue with others. However, I do have to admit that many Christians are not open to this kind of dialogue (sadly), though in the church I attend most are (happily!). I can’t speak for atheists, though my boss is an atheist and we have had many wonderful philosophical dialogues & conversations together.

Well science is science. But I know someone who does it, and they are pretty accurate. I cant explain it, but I see them do it regularly. Go figure.

To argue against it is to argue against the idea that all matter is essentially the same.

Also, action at a distance that isn’t possible without a medium or the action carrying the medium with it.

There is more, but you get the idea- it just doesn’t work.

whatever works for ya I guess. Some things I cant see yet I still believe, but thats just the way my brain works.

Nevertheless, the vast, vast majority of the stuff that was scorned by the science community at large turned out to be crackpottery.

Example: our current theories of quantum mechanics is indeed strange and spooky; however it was NOT anticipated by the crackpots of that era.

So, there will most likely be strange and spooky stuff that will be discovered in the future, but it has nothing to do with what woos believe now-a-days.

read “existentialism and human emotion” by John Paul Sarte if you haven’t already.