"Perhaps you don't understand what faith is, or its relation to reason, or how "science" was understood by scientists of the 13th century."
Well, that is pretty damning! How on earth can you pontificate on the nature of my understanding of faith?
I may take a peek at ... (I studied Latin 40 odd years ago) ... Faith and rationality (Reason is probably a better translation) about wings. However, I'm pretty sure it isn't going to involve solving special cases of Bernoulli equations or Finite Element Analysis.
You have your notion of faith and I have mine. I would never dream of describing your notions of faith as false or misled or misguided or anything else. I respect your faith and your right to have as such. I'd be grateful if you would extend the same courtesy to me and anyone else who has a difference of opinion to yourself.
Your elements of engineering, science etc list seems to have missed out rather a lot of the world. For starters: algorithms are named after an Arab bloke. Our "alphabet" is named after the first two letters of Hebrew, our numbers are famously Arabic. Nought/nowt/null/zero/nothing as a mathematics concept largely comes from Islamic scholars. What we now call India and China also have a massive input to the basics - too much for this comment 8)
Well, that is pretty damning! How on earth can you pontificate on the nature of my understanding of faith?
I may take a peek at ... (I studied Latin 40 odd years ago) ... Faith and rationality (Reason is probably a better translation) about wings. However, I'm pretty sure it isn't going to involve solving special cases of Bernoulli equations or Finite Element Analysis.
You have your notion of faith and I have mine. I would never dream of describing your notions of faith as false or misled or misguided or anything else. I respect your faith and your right to have as such. I'd be grateful if you would extend the same courtesy to me and anyone else who has a difference of opinion to yourself.
Your elements of engineering, science etc list seems to have missed out rather a lot of the world. For starters: algorithms are named after an Arab bloke. Our "alphabet" is named after the first two letters of Hebrew, our numbers are famously Arabic. Nought/nowt/null/zero/nothing as a mathematics concept largely comes from Islamic scholars. What we now call India and China also have a massive input to the basics - too much for this comment 8)