Comment on PUC Professor: The Noachian Flood was just a local flood? by PUC Alumn.
I’d like to point out that this website is biased.
I would also like to say that scientific inquiry can’t be ignored.
And then I would like to point out that education isn’t about creating blind faith, and that if PUC were telling students not to ask the difficult questions I wouldn’t send my kids there.
And now I would like to share a few quotes that illustrate the fact that faith and doubt go together like a wink and a smile:
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, “A Holy Mess,” 1982
Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith
I’m glad that Professor Ness is challenging the establishment, it needs challenging. He’s not telling students to abandon their faith, he’s asking them to examine tough questions. And that is what education is all about.
