[Sca-cooks] Faith and chellenges
Anne-Marie Rousseau
dailleurs at liripipe.com
Tue May 30 14:54:05 PDT 2006
hey all from Anne-Marie
the same criteria could be put on pretty much any observation set. Conclusions are
based on faith. some faith decisions have more supporting evidence than others. but
if there's one thing science has taught me is that we dont know nuthin. we can
guess (again, faith) and we can make educated guesses (still faith) but we never
really know.
Observations are facts. conclusions are explainations taht may or may not be right,
and that are made based on interpretations of facts.
if I let go of this ball, it appears to go down.
does it? really? are you sure?
why? we say gravity.
gravity is the idea that magnetic and other vector forces exert a pull on all
objects. we have math that if you plug in weights and velocities, you can figure a
constant value that we call "gravity".
it is also possible that it is merely an optical illusion. not likely, but
possible. We ahve faith that our suppositions of "gravity" are true. and so we draw
conclusions based on that.
I guess for me, wisdom is the ability to take in stride times when faith is
required :)
as for what I mean when I say divine intervention, I'm an immunlogist, studing
cancer and angiogenesis. the way the human body works is just too friggin neat. I
choose to take that as evidence of a divine finger at the start that poked the
start of the rube golberg device taht is evolution.
the more observations and facts we gather, the more we realise we have no idea how
these things came to be (a cell turns cancerous. macrophages come in and are anti
tumor. until the tumor cell starts pumping out chemicals that turn the macrophage
into a pro tumor support cell. ) we can guess and we can hypothesise, but in the
end its all faith. faith that the observations are really what we think theya re,
and faith that the systems are as we imagine.
>We learn from experimenting, critical analysis, speculation, testing,
validation, open discussion, challenging our once-treasured beliefs, trying out new
ideas and viewpoints, looking at trends, looking for connections -- and that's in
cooking! Why shouldn't the same ideas apply to religion?
and they do. even for us jesuit educated catholics :)
there's lots of kinds of faith in this world. some people have faith in the
physical world. some people have faith in their fellow humans. some have faith in
the Divine. I have faith in faith. :)
--AM, who also has faith that mustard and butter and capers and green onions are
yummy when made into a sauce and put on veggies or meat or bread.
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