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[Clarke]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

just because we have some knowledge on the physical or chemical processes that are connected to things we see in the natural world does not have to minimize the wonder and awe we can feel (in part though only if we temporarily let go of the thinking mind which tries to minimize these experiences as "it is just this and that chemical phenomenon")

If your analysis and study of the natural world reduces, rather than enhances the wonder and awe behind it, you're doing it wrong IM(NS)HO as a computing scientist. Although my field of study is more abstract and mathematical, the properties and interconnections - both the intrinsic and the "practical" applications - of what I'm studying are fascinating and beautiful.

What do you mean, it isn't —ing awesome than the entire natural world is built out of nanotech robotics? (Not to mention the elegance of not only those robots, but the entirety of the human-scale world being defined by laws of physics short enough to write on one side of one sheet of paper.)

Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower - YouTube

Originally Posted by Niri Te

I studied Aerospace Engineering and Physics in College, and BECAUSE I studied these things, I get a great Appreciation for HOW God went about CREATING the entire Universe by using the "Laws of Science" that God brought into being to RUN the universe by. Science does NOT disprove the existence of God, Rather it does the opposite. One of the very first things that I will do when I see God face to face, is ask, "Please teach me the Science that you created to form what we call the Big Bang. Please show me what happened just before the explosion that brought time and space into being".

You studied aerospace engineering, and that's the question you want to ask? Be prepared for a very long explanation.