A quote from Galileo:" I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

It is a favorite.

The Bible has much to teach, strict adherence to it, the Law, or any other primal source is often a cause of misunderstanding or worse.

Congratulations on siding with the Dali Lama, on if science can prove it, one's view should change.