the unstated assumption in your statement is that somehow, being curious and asking questions and making experiments is an offense against God. i assert that this is a fallacious equation of logic that was inserted into christianity to poison it to become a justification for absolute dictatorship o...

If it’s a gift or not is of little importance to me, but I know it does come from God. We’ve known this since the days of Ancient Egypt.

I suppose all thinking is a gift from God. I imagine that wholistic, right brain thinking can feel like it came from outside of ourselves when it didn’t. I also think ideas can enter our consciousness via mechanisms other than the physical senses or cerebral function. Sometimes that looks like ins...