darth_ender said:

Faith can be either the easy road or the hard road, depending on one's willingness to understand and accept science. For me it has become the hard road, but I love to have faith in what I cannot explain scientifically.

I said this in my LDS thread, but I thought about this a little more and thought it might make an interesting topic.

There are those who believe in religion and therefore dismiss all science that disagrees with their worldview, finding the two incompatible. This is the easy road for people of faith in my mind. If it doesn't fit with your interpretation of events (i.e. the Creation), it must be absolutely false.

There are those who take a different sort of easy road, believing in science, and since it does not match up with scriptural accounts exactly, there must be no truth to them at all. Sure, there are good stories and morals, but little scientific or historical value.

To me, a harder road is to believe in both. How literal is the Bible? How correct are our scientific measurements? Are science and faith able to fit together? Many Mormons are actually quite capable of both, and there is a surprising spectrum of those who take the most literal views of scriptures as opposed to those who take the most scientific views among Church leadership, past and present. This can be difficult because obviously some things don't seem to line up. It can cause a crisis of faith for those unwilling to suspend understanding. Obviously our science is not perfect, but I don't believe our understanding of God's word is either. But I do believe that God is real, that this is his universe, and that our understanding of his intentions in both science and faith will ultimately align.

I just had to elaborate my thinking. Any thoughts?