Have not had a chance to read a brief history of time yet, so I can’t comment. There are however many people you can reconcile both their Christian beliefs with science. Indeed this is how I used to view things.

It’s perfectly workable as evidenced by Francis Collins a man who is one of the greatest geneticists of our time and a fundamentalist christian and obviously your father.

This is all due to the Reformation and the reinterpretation of the Christian canon in the light of science.

My only problem is a philosophical one here. I can no longer make the jump.

We have current scientific theory ie the big bang and before that the unknown.

Some people like to call that unknown God. A God of the gaps arguement if you like.

I just prefer to call it the unknown. It will probably remain so long after I am wormfood

I have been increasing my undersatnding of early christian history, and the construction of the Bible, the old testament. The harder you look the more you see that a) Its not divinely inspired b)Its heavily reconstructed and reinterpreted and will continue to be so.

There is no evidence for me that points to a God of any description, that is not a creation of man.

But if you can make that jump from Big Bang to God, good luck to you.

On prisons, yes aside from psychopaths and sociopaths, you tend to see people who have made wrong choices, or who have not been in situations where they were given the tools to make the right ones.

Admittedly I would find it hard not to fly into a murderous rage if one of my family were harmed – I am human

Enjoy you time at home.

It wouldn’t work the way I wanted it to…