BBCP - Uh-huh. Well, I'm just telling you what I trust. I trust direct personal experience. I also trust things that I can reason out and which seem through my process of reasoning to be "reasonable" to me. Everyone does that.

I also tend to trust information I get from people I deem trustworthy...but that doesn't mean I trust it absolutely. The only things I trust absolutely are those I know by direct experience or by my own powers of reason.

Again, everybody does that.

I tend to trust both scientific things AND spiritual things, provided they make sense to me. I don't tend to trust them if they don't make sense to me.

I see no reason why I have to deny the one (science or religion) in order to accept the other. They are not necessarily in conflict. There isn't just ONE way of being "religious" and there isn't just ONE set of rules, beliefs, etc...similarly, there isn't just ONE set of scientific theories. There are many.