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I do not believe in the Bible. I do believe in God. It may not be the same god as you, but I do believe that there is some sort of higher power as some say. I have never questioned it, nor have I had any reason to.

An interesting scenario occurred a while back. One of the classes I teach is a physics course for allied health students with an emphasis on using evidence and experimentation to illustrate the various lecture topics. During one semester, a student who was also involved in taking chemistry and a genetics class asked me an interesting question. He asked me if I believed in God. Apparently, he had been a rather devout Catholic until he started college and was beginning to question his beliefs and asking religious/belief type questions of his instructors and professors. Clearly, he was experiencing a powerful paradigm shift as a result of his educational experience. I do not necessarily want to go on a religion versus agnostic and atheism rant, but rather want to ask a broad spanning question. Have you had a similar experience or have you challenged something you believed in because of your educational experiences or perhaps life experiences? This need not be isolated to faith. I hope for productive and thoughtful dialogue. I wonder if this isn't something more students experience but perhaps do not fully explore. Perhaps there exist psychosocial considerations as well.

The Quran is considered to be the literal and verbatim word of god. Wouldn't the literal word would trump the divinely inspired word? It's an interesting question. Theological beliefs versus theological beliefs. Which is correct? Which is not?

Herein lies the problem. There are others of the Christian faith that would say Genesis dates the world to about 6000 years old. Who is correct and how do we decide?

No Doc I do not. And neither does the bible. Genesis is allegory, written for a specific people at a specific time in history within a specific cultural context. Understanding the thinking of that time and place illuminates the mystery and yet the simplicity, the enormous power and impact of the big bang and a constantly expanding universe.. Chbare, I am a firm believer in the scientific method - constantly revising practices in the face of new evidence. The same applies to my understanding of God. Just as homosexuality was banned in the Old Testament, anyone who reviles the power of sexuality and love today is going contrary to God's Love. The evidence is in the Bible

chbare, I hope I am not going in a direction you did not intend for this thread to go by asking a followup question to yours. Let's put aside the reconciliation of fundamental dogma for a minute. How do people who believe in the bible reconcile the history, as reported in the bible, with available scientific facts (ie the story of Noah and the flood)? Kaisu, do you believe in a young earth?

Yes. Specifically from a theological standpoint the more religious instruction I received the more my views changed. The more science education I received the more my theological views changed.

The more education I get, the more my view of God expands. The more I study the Bible, archeological and anthropological context, the more it's divine truths shine through. It's scary in the initial stages of the inquiry because the old familiar touchstones fall away and I am in an unpleasant tension. As the cycle unfolds, I am humbled, awed and elated.

Not to take this too far off topic so early, but for those that do believe in a god but not the bible, do you believe that the god resembles the one in the bible? Is anyone here polytheistic?

It is interesting to speak to different healthcare professionals and scientists about this. I have know both to have beliefs strongly both ways. Doctors who believe they get their knowledge and surgeons who believe God guides their hands while education guides their brain. I think they will find ways to believe either way. I believe in evolution, but who is to say our time line is the same as Gods? His day maybe our century. I don't know. I just choose to keep Science and religion separate.

I was never a devout (insert any religion here) but I did believe in god. As junior high and high school rolled around and I took more science classes (especially Bio and Physics) I started to question and soon realized that I no longer believed. Wanting to make a truly informed decision (is that possible in something like this?), I started to read books by noted atheists which made me critically evaluate the bible as a whole and not just the happy parts they teach in Sunday school. Needless to say, it was quite eye opening and, pardon the pun, a revelation.

Ummmmm guys, an Advanced Care Directive does not necessarily mean a DNR. In this particular case, the decease had an ACD for all appropriate measures to be taken, including CPR.

Here is a link. A stipend or a nominal feed for expensees still keeps your volunteer status http://www.dol.gov/whd/opinion/FLSA/2006/2006_08_07_28_FLSA.htm

No no no, I said PROPERLY TRAINED PROFESSIONALS.

A&P and Pharm will get you through just about anything a paramedic class can throw your direction if you truly understand them. It really is that simple. All of the basic things like placing a patient in spinal precautions or basic wound management should have been covered off when you did your EMT program. The truth is being a paramedic is much easier than it's made out to be. You need three things to be a great paramedic and only one of them comes from your paramedic class. 1) Education: Not just your intitial A&P, patho, pharm etc. but regular continuing education. Paramedicine is in a constant state of flux just like every other part of medicine and you had damn well better be prepared to spend the rest of your career re-educating yourself. 2) Compassion: Grandma doesn't give a shit that you slotted the tube into her dying husband first pass like a total rockstar. She cares that you took a moment to let her kiss her husband of 50 years goodbye before whistling him off to the hospital where he is unlikely to survive to discharge. 3) Adaptability: Murphy's Law is reality. If you want to be great at this job you have to have your wits about you well enough you can tell Murphy to stick it. Anybody can take the education. Compassion and adaptability are things you either have or you don't. No amount of education will give you them.

It is good to have you. You are one of the most informative new posters I have ever seen, I think. Jump in to every discussion that tickles your fancy. I simply could not resist pitching in an idiom. I am not familiar with Paris, France but have beet through Paris. Texas. Our Proteccion Civil Logo from the other side of the world is very similar to yours. Welcome!