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 Of course, I also believe the things that science says. I believe that the universe is 14 billion years old, that natural universal processes formed the stars and planets, that biodiversity is the result of evolution. And as I tend to hang out in communities with strong atheist and anti-theist sentiments, a question I've been asked more than a few times is: how do I reconcile religious faith with scientific skepticism?
 
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 Ultimately, the answer is "by holding multiple worldviews, and context switching between them." But it's easy to interpret that as "you don't really _believe_ in your religion, then. You believe in science, so the religion must therefore be pretend." As that is not how I actually experience things, I'd like to try and unpack what I mean.
 
 I was raised in a Protestant Christian tradition. As I grew up, I noticed something strange to me: people had a few very distinct modes of talking about religious beliefs. Christianity was talked about as if it were Serious and True, but other religions were "mythology"; things people used to believe, before they came to their collective senses. Even before I learned about the historical spread of Christianity, this struck me as odd; how did we know these things were true but those things were false? They were all equally impossible-sounding, after all. All we had to go on was a book full of stories, and well, other religions had stories, too. The answer I was given, when I inevitably asked, was "that's what faith is about." But that never set well with me. After all, these other peoples at other places and times had just as much (and varying levels of!) faith in their gods as the people around me did in Jesus. It seemed like there had to be something driving that faith, at least for some portion of the population.