Strikingly Similar Points to Heed

I recently finished The Question of God, by Armand Nicholi, a Harvard Psychiatrist who, through the book, examines the thoughts of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud on God, Love, Morality and other such important issues.

I'm also working on The Language of God, by Francis Collins, who's the scientist who heads the Human Genome Project, and is a Christian.

There's a statement made at the end of The Question of God I found strikingly similar to something Collins says at the beginning of lecture he gave on the relationship between faith and science.

From The Question of God:

"Yet, Freud, and Lewis before his [conversion to Christianity], also avoided confronting the evidence. We find this easy to do. We keep ourselves distracted. We rationalize. We tell our self we will consider such weighty (and anxiety-provoking) subjects when we are older--when time demands will not be as great...As with Lewis before his transition, we really don't want to know--we nurture a 'willful blindness' and a 'deep-seated hatred of authority.' We find repugnant the notion of "a transcendental Interferer." We feel toward our lives as both Freud and Lewis felt toward theirs: 'This is my business, and mine only."' (pg. 242-243)

From Faith and the Human Genome, a lecture by Francis Collins:

"Despite the best efforts of the American Scientific Affiliation to bridge the gap between science and faith, few gatherings of scientists involved in biology include any meaningful discussion about the spiritual significance of the current revolution in genetics and genomics. Most biologists and geneticists seem to have concluded that science and faith are incompatible, but few who embrace that conclusion seem to have seriously considered the evidence."

When it comes to the reality of God, it's amazing how much there is in people that wants not to see.

This all brings to mind a quote from George MacDonald in The Curate's Awakening:

"As for any influence from the direction of religion, a contented soul may glide through all his life long, unstruck to the last, buoyant and evasive as a bee in a hail storm."