"I have always wanted to discuss theological issues to depths that made everyone else uncomfortable, and I have never understood that. If scripture is credible, then why can't it be discussed from the perspectives of psychology, chemistry, genetics, or even sub-atomic physics? We are all born into a cultural bias and grow up in environments that reinforce our cultural views. However, we must be aware of our own limitations of understanding. Education, heritage, and situation form the biases we use as crutches to interpret the data around us. Add to our impediments, the biological nature of cognitive process and the inability of our biology to cope with the non-linearity of time. We must open our perspectives to a much larger reality than just the corner church. The war of words revolves around semantics and it is the semantics of our understanding that has fueled the conflict between science and religious mythology..." -the author