Faith and Science work together

Yes, I too am excited to have this opportunity to exchange ideas and I am sure this will be good for both of us.

OK, let me start by saying-- if I don't address everything you've mentioned so far, it is not because I am ignoring an issue but only because I am trying to focus on one or two thoughts at a time. This will allow for shorter, more frequent entries.

I feel from your comments I need to clarify that I am not anti-science. The discoveries we are making concerning the physical and the natural are exciting and incredible. I just believe that faith and science should work together. Science is limited to man's capability at the time and has had to correct ideas and theories throughout history as more and more evidence presents itself. As our understanding of our world grows this should only increase our desire to know and love its Maker. God has never contradicted science... Science contradicts God when scientist try to fill in philosophical questions about how we were created without turning to God. This is where yours and my faith differs. To put your faith in science alone and believe "the cosmos is all there is and ever will be" (to quote Carl Sagan), is a pretty big leap. Science does not have all the answers, its focus is in the realm of particulars; particulars have no meaning apart from the pattern of the universal plan. It's not a "god of the gaps" error (as you mentioned) when you turn to God for the answers. God is the glue that binds all the pieces of the puzzle together. He is behind everything. The error comes in when you leave God out! Here are a few quotes from famous scientist to show this error-----

"Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose." Richard Dawkins

"Biologist must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved."
Francis Clark

"Most modern biologist, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing. I think a scientist has no choice but to approach the orgin of life through a hypothesis of spontaneous generation. One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this talk to concede spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are."
George Wald

"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the orgin of live appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going."
Francis Clark (Nobel Prize winner)

These scientist seem to refuse to follow the Truth no matter where it may lead.

"The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" Psalm 53

Believer in the Truth