The initial question is in the OP title.
If the data conflicts with your faith, how do you reconcile the conflict?
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Faith is the belief in things not seen. One way to understand this riddle of faith, is via the imagination, since the imagination can process data without using the five senses. I can place myself in a sensory depravation tank and my mind does not go blank. One does not need the five senses to think. What is left is internal data processing, from previous and innate memory, from which we can gain new data and draw new conclusions. This internal data processes is what separates humans from the animals, and why the Bible says human are above the animals.
All innovation comes from this inner source, since what is new and revolutionary does not first exist for the senses of others. All you religious leaders of past and present saw things before they came to pass. It is said to exist, by man, only after it made manifest and brought into reality, so the animal man can see and touch. Humans are less spooked afterwards, because they are not sure how to explain the processing that comes before the senses are involved.
Man was created in the image of God, is also misunderstood. The image is not based on a sensory image. This should have been easy for science to infer, since humans come in so many colors and sizes. Is God a chameleon?
The image off God is more like a disk image in computer lingo; made from a master copy. This image is connected what we call human nature. Human nature is common to all humans independent of race and culture. In that sense, the image of God is connected to the operating system of the human brain, which is accessible via inner man, using the frontal lobe, limbic system, and imagination.
The outer man and sensory reality is a really blend of the inner man and the outer man of cultural and sensory education, which makes it harder to see the base or clear image of God. The cross contamination of data makes the disk image harder to reconcile.
The image of God is loosely analogous to the Windows operating system of computers that can be installed in a wide range of computer with different manufacturers and capacities. It is the same operating system even if the computer shell and hardware look and performs differently.
This can be better understood and even proven to yourself, if you learn how to read the code in the program instead of depend only on the differences in output between Gaming computers and base PC's. The outer man does not go deep enough and expects the hardware to be the solution since we can see and touch it. God is not a hardware solution, but lies with the coding of the brain.
