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I was baptized on April 4th, 1984. I've been raised as a Catholic, and as a young child I became entranced with dinosaurs. Imagining what they would have looked like, how they would have moved, what they would have sounded like...and longing with all my young heart that I could see one. Attending a very traditional school, my love of dinosaurs and my faith started to come into friction...my beloved science documentaries talked about millions of years ago, whereas my teachers at school talked about thousands of years ago. The word evolution came up, and I remember thinking how ridiculous it was to think that a species could turn into something else. A dog would never become a rabbit, that was silly!

I slowly grew in my understanding of both science and faith and received guidance from many sources, from clergy, museums, books, and documentaries. When I became a student of geology in university, I knew I'd have to face these questions head-on. I was frightened that studying geology would directly confront, conflict with, and destroy the faith which had given me peace and guidance and meaning my whole life. To my surprise, both faith and science both stood up to my scrutiny, compatible, beautiful and strong. I know understood some of the profound differences between the two.

I want to share some of the results of my journey thus far, and go into some new territory, both for my own benefit, and hopefully to share it with others who have similar questions.

My aim is not to preach to those who profess science as their only belief: the quest for faith is a deeply personal one rooted in experience, and all the things in my life which prove to me that God exists and loves me would never prove anything to someone else. My aim is to reach those who have faith, those who hear stories daily illustrating the illusional conflict between science and religion, the thought that one has to be rejected to accept the other. This popular belief is very dangerous to people of faith, and society as a whole.

I hope you gain some benefit from my notes. Please comment with any thoughts or disagreements you might have, as well as topics which you might want to see explored in the future. I intend to write at least one article a month, to be posted at the beginning of each month.