For the longest time in my life, I struggled between religion and the world's view of "science". I am a pretty religious person, but I'm also a lover of science- primarily the unknown, or not-yet-discovered sciences. I have a great interest in space, the human mind, and other things that can be considered "mystery subjects." One of the big issues, for example, is the Big Bang Theory. All my life, the religious community that I am a part of had the attitude of "Absolutely no questioning God or religion, no thoughts of anything else other than pure devotion." I was starting to come close to breaking off from religion as science and reason started to set into my mind. Then one day came when I just thought about the possibility of religion AND science, intermixed. I started to think about my Bible and it's contents, not all literally, but as lessons and teachings. I thought that maybe in the Bible, when it says "He created (whichever part) on (whichever of the seven days)," that it might not literally mean days, as in 24 hours time, but rather it might mean simply, "The first 'time that He worked'..." It might not make much sense, and it's hard to explain. To sum it up, in not so hard to understand wording, I basically started to take all of the exact measurements/times/weights, and think of them as more of a "big picture" kind of thing. Instead of literally getting swallowed by a whale, maybe Jonah was simply caught up in sins that has the magnitude of that of a whale. Maybe instead of literally splitting the Red Sea in half, the Israelites simply made a legendary and epic escape from Egypt. This helped immensely, for those who I didn't lose while trying to explain it all. It helped immensely, to be able to combine science and religion, two things that for thousands of years, have had to be two separate topics.