Sitting on the dock of the bay

In your last post you quoted ..

Genesis is concerned about who created and why, not about how and when. Science cannot answer the former questions, and Genesis is largely mute about the latter.

Something implicit in that statement is that Genesis can and does answer the questions of who and why.

I wonder what a Buddhist would say about that? My point is that the Buddhist (or Muslim or any other religious person) can whistle until he is blue in the face that the speed of light in vacuo is not approximately 186,000 miles per second - but all can measure it to be.

What is the point in suggesting that one's religion provides answers to things that cannot be measured? Like who created the Universe and why? Religion doesn't provide answers, it provides a belief system, doesn't it?

I guess I am saying that a particular religion cannot be measured "true" by a cross section of all religions, so let's not imply that our particular religion has the right answers, let's just say "It's what we believe in and I hope that one day you believe in it also".

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I'm glad that you did the ride buddy - I love doing those kind of trips, on a bike you connect more to your surroundings (sights, sounds, smells) than in a car.

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I'm in Hursley this week helping some more Croatians keep secrets by encrypting their data from the prying eyes that natural selection has given would-be bandits who wish to gain some advantage over their fellows. This gaining advantage to survive, this could be something the creator infused in us perhaps?