(March 29, 2014 at 10:31 am)Faith No More Wrote: My dad is certainly not fucked up and is easily the most intelligent, well-educated person I know, but I think he's suffering cognitive dissonance from his conflicting worldviews.
A certain amount of cognitive dissonance is probably the only alternative to a faith-based worldview.
But really there is no necessary conflict. Some Christians think the natural world is a kind of revelation regarding the nature of god. We can disagree about the advisability of reading in something beyond nature at the core of nature, but I don't believe doing so should have to impair your understanding of science. Your father seems like a prime example and Jacob here was another until he decided to chuck the god premiss.
