Having the Sun as its centre. In other words rational.
You can only have faith without proof, and Science requires proof. I think Douglas addams said something along those lines in Hitchhikers.
The minute God becomes flesh, he is recognised as a Scientific Phenomenon and he ceases to be one of Faith. So The minute The Gods of the Bajorans became observable, they destroyed the Bajoran Faith. DS9 was not about a reconciliation between faith and Science, Such a concept where gods are observable is impossible by definition. Human beings might be able to accept two contradicting "facts" as truth, but it is never a true "reconciliation" as neither concept can be conceived of with regard to the other without the rational mind completely rejecting the Faith.
The only way you can get a "reconciliation" is when your Faith legends are based around concepts which Science has not and never will cover.
Posted on May 15, 2003, 10:22 AM from IP address 63.34.208.123