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The Fact/Faith Debate: Why Science Hasn't Killed Religion
Author(s): Jack Gage (Author)
- Publisher: Two Harbors Pr
- Publication Date: 14 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 188 pages
- ISBN-10: 1938690222
- ISBN-13: 9781938690228
Book Description
The dictionary definition of fact is something known to exist or to have happened, whereas faith generally is described as belief not based on proof. There are 10,000 religions worldwide, eighteen of which are major Christian religions, and among Christians there are 9,000 separate denominations. Each of those religions and denominations has its own belief systemits followers act on faitheven though, as author Jack Gage points out, all the adherents of these different belief systems inhabit the same world, with the same physical facts, with access to the same knowledge. So how and why did so many religions come into existence? And how do the various religious explanationswhether Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, or any otherfor how the world and the people in it began stack up against scientific fact?
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About the Author
Jack Gage was born and raised in Wyoming, attended Wyoming public schools, and graduated from high school in June 1944. He enlisted in the United States Army in July 1944 and was sent to Colorado A&M, now Colorado State University, in the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program. He was put on active duty in January 1945 and medically discharged that same year. He entered the University of Southern California in the fall of 1945, left that school in 1947 when he ran out of money, and later worked for a construction company, Morrison-Knudsen, Inc., of Boise, Idaho, on Guam and Eniwetok Atoll from the spring of 1947 until the fall of 1949. He returned to University of Southern California in the spring of 1950 and transferred to the University of Wyoming that fall, graduating with a BS in business administration in 1951. He returned to the construction business with Morrison-Knudsen Company and worked on projects in North Africa, Idaho, Oregon, New Hampshire, and finally in upstate New York on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. He left construction and became an investor and office manager for a company headquartered in New York City that manufactured heating elements. That company went broke, and in 1966, at age forty, Gage entered the University of Utah College of Law. He made the Law Review and graduated with a juris doctorate degree in 1968, settled in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and practiced law there until 1995, when he retired to the Kona Coast of the big island of Hawaii.Author’s Home: Kailua Kona, HI
