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Originally Posted by tompe
They usually then end up with a "God in the gap" theory and that is usually not what the common man associate with the God concept.
Also I think it is a conflict in the ways you decide to hold things true. For religion (Catholicism) you can hold thing true using methods that you would not accept in your activity as a scientist. To me this has always been the big conflict. How to motivate the difference in standard.
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I'm in the middle of reading Science and Islam in Conflict by Todd Pitock (see link below) which was included in the 2008 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Looks to be the full version here:
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/science-and-islam