About
What were we arguing about again?
Everything we are, our embrace of faith or rejection thereof, past or future, is a product of who we are.
Insofar as we've evolved, our perspective on the universe has evolved with us. Our stories about ourselves and our universe - religions - speak less to empirical fact than they do to the assumptions of the writer and the reader. Scientific inquiry gives us many facts and no truth; in the end, we are still submarines, locked in our own perceptual bubbles, machines of evolution and vessels of the divine spark. We aren't moving forward because we aren't asking the right questions: not "does god exist?" but "where do we get the idea of god?"
I'm a big-city geek from a small town in Kentucky. I was home-schooled and raised in a conservative Protestant church, but left home to study music composition; I now make a living writing software and attempting to reconcile my profound respect for science with my Bible-based upbringing, to understand the path I've taken and why so few take it. In discovering the secrets of the universe that science has shown us, I believe more in God more deeply than I ever could within a rigid fundamentalist belief system. God transcends human understanding and human expression; "whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent" (Wittgenstein). I believe that humility in our limited human understanding is the key to the reconciliation of religion and science.
I believe that miscommunication is the root of disagreement, but I'm open to dissenting opinions on that.
I live in the Seattle area and play analog synthesizer in the psych-folk band Midday Veil, where I try to express all this stuff non-verbally, so check us out sometime if you're in the area.