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I think there's room for science and religious theology. Consider the following:
Biblical scripture teaches that God created man from the dust. Science teaches that this planet was formed from the collection of space debris colliding together and over time molding itself into this big blue ball, that is was once such the collision occurred that carried with it the building blocks - DNA - for life to form on Earth. Until then, science teaches that this planetoid was nothing more than a large piece of hot space junk. The question then becomes how did that single cell organism develop into the countless species of plant and animal life we know today?
Answer: It evolved...adapted to its surroundings, changing over time. We're still seeing these such changes all around us everyday. They're subtle, i.e., setiments in water as it flows through rivers and streams being deposited in areas where they normally wouldn't have decades or hundreds if not thousands of years before. The Earth's crust shifting, volcanos erupting casting off the primortial soup was call lava which science has shown does reconstitute life.
It's a cycle, one man can't fully understand in all its detail, but we are learning. We are evolving...every day. But the two answers we may never know are "why" and "how"? Why create man here on this planet were this lifeform (to our knowledge atleast) does not exist elsewhere? And how did we presumably go from what science says is a being from the water to a two-legged creature that walks upright that happens to have a higher plain of deductive reasoning than our nearest primate relative?
For what it's worth, I just accept it for what it is, count my blessings that I was born human and not an ant or spider and move on. But I thank God for wisemen who are daring enough to challenge what they don't know and are brave enough to seek out answers that stand to benefit all of mankind.
Objective, I read your post and I simply can't understand how you could possibly argue that one can reconcile biblical scripture with modern science or have them in the same room. Biblical scripture and by extention, religion is a response to man's ignorance of the world. Not his knowledge. Religion has been evolving from the day it was created. We went from believing in the power of elements such as fire, earth, wind etc to molding these into single omnipotent beings. These beings are not only capable of speaking the language of whomever it's refering to but also intervenes in the favor of the people writing the story. God, Gods, elements and whatever other belief one might have are an explanation for what one can't understand. Your post seems like an attempt to have your cake and eat it too. I'm just not convinced by your argument.