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netwolf - no I was never trying to argue, in your words "faith limits purpose or limits our ability to learn ", puzzled you thought I were? Faith gives a purpose. Science ponders is there a discoverable purpose? Faith intreprets commands, their meaning and how our understanding of the world through science changes the way in which the faithful have intrepreted their faith in the past. So science certainly does interact with faith. When faith says the dinosaurs (leviathans etc) lived when the world was created 12,000 years ago and science says add a few more zeros you have a reconcilation challenge on timelines. To simply say "so what?" gets you quickly into the terrority of a book that is deemed holy, infallible given prophets words were classified as directed by God so not subject to mis-speaking - hence you get a direct clash between faith and science, but one that must play out in science's courtroom. Then faith must question not only all of sciences dating mechanisms to say science got it wrong when it sees the Earth as 5 billion years old, its less than 20,000, but multiple interlinked systems of geogology, astro physics, cosmology, ecology, etc... basically its fighting a very one sided battle.
I'd prefer to accept a signal to noise issue given how languages evolve in that the original message to the faithful got some noise in the signal, so keep searching! The truth is out there!
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