I am a theist and spend a lot of my time thinking and reading about scientific issues. I am desperate to know the answers.

And as for religion closing more minds than it opens - well, closed minded people are found all over, and religion has more than its fair share - can't deny it. But UK organisation 'Christians in Science' boasts more that 1500 members, and these are people working in real science - not creationists or ignorant evolution bashers.

And you must remember that the discipline of science grew up in monotheistic cultures only, where there was a belief that because of God, the universe must be ordered and therefore examinable.

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'In the beginning were created only germs or causes of the forms of life which were afterwards to be developed in gradual course' - St. Augustine 400 AD.

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Regards,

Blacknad.