<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:21 PM, William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>You are certainly right that most educated people do not have a high religious sense. All I am saying is that it is not incompatible. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">The only way the two can coexist in the</font></div><font size="4"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">same </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">mind is if they are kept in strict airtight compartments so that the religious ideas and the intelligent ideas never have any contact with each other. Thus for 6 days a week the intelligent geologist deduces that the area above the layer of 359 million year old microfossils and below the layer of 299 </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">million year old microfossils<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> would be a good place to drill for oil, and then on Sunday sings the praises of God and a 6 thousand year old Earth.</div></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John k Clark </font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">For years I have wondered about Wm F Buckley, and how such a smart man can be a Roman Catholic.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">However: I saw what breaking from the church (Methodist) did to my family and me, and it is not unlikely that some people stay in the church and avow religiosity just to avoid family difficulties. I still don't think that ALL intelligent people are nonreligious at their core. <br><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Personally I think old Ben was as atheist as they come.<br><br>bill w<br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><br></div>
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