David

“Literalism is like giving a child a calculus book as a step stool to reach a washbasin. In so doing, much is lost that lies with the proper use of the book. Certainly children need step stools, but that particular use misses the true potential the book has to offer.”
― Steven L. Peck, Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist

“This is why reading the scriptures as a scientific text can do violence to their purpose. They are designed to connect us subjectively, consciously, and spiritually to richer truths and meaning.”
― Steven L. Peck, Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist

“That’s understandable, but it also shows we are a bit intolerant of alien intelligences.”
― Tyler Cowen, Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation