In response to the letter entitled 'Faithful Scientists,' I would like to further defend myself and my point of view regarding creationism and its relationship to the separation of church and state that a professor defended against on Tuesday.
No matter how a 'scientist' wishes to look at it, creationism is science. When I use the scientific method to explore my world and come to a conclusion on the origins of the earth, I am a scientist, and if I use that method correctly, it is science. Science is not faith-neutral, only if you wish to deny your faith when in the pursuit of scientific studies. When one reaches the point where no explanation is possible except that God created this infinitely complex planet, and solar system, faith enters science. Albert Einstein said, 'The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.' Where the mysterious begins, so does faith.
I also find that just because the professor claiming 'church and state' happened to have been a bishop in the past does not make him an authority on science and politics. I do know how to distinguish between science and faith, and have found them to be insuperably woven together into this thing we call existence.
Daniel Woolston
Sugar Land, Texas