Hello all, I haven't posted here in, well, a long time. I tend to lurk more than anything these days.
I've been reading a few books recently by Konstantinos and Ly de Angeles (on witchcraft, etc.) and am having a hard time understanding the complete picture of how witchcraft/wicca fit into life as a whole. Having taken a world religions class this semester for my graduate program and done an interview, the list of questions we were given I thought might deal more effectively with some of the questions I have in placing witchcraft in the larger whole of life and the world at large, etc. If any would care to take a swipe at some of these, I'd love to hear your responses! (I'm including all the questions to gain a little more perspective into the minds of those who respond, but am most interested in those pertaining to science, as I happen to be a scientist)

1. How did you come to your current understanding of magic and witchcraft? What influenced you in this?
2. Have you seriously questioned or examined your beliefs? Do you think people at large do this commonly?
3. What sort of things might challenge your beliefs? What are its strengths?
4. Is it possible to test one's worldview, whether for internal coherency or pragmatic relevance?

For the interesting questions:
5. How does one relate science to wicca? Can one be a good scientist and witch (or preferred term)? Does science have any ability either to justify or falsify wicca in any way? How do you understand Evolution and other scientific theories to relate to nature, gods and goddesses?
6. How does witchcraft serve as a guide for life?
7. How does one's conception of gods and goddesses influence the rest of one's beliefs? (I'm trying here to see the relation of the idea of god-forms as opposed to the more premodern aspects of gods and goddesses as understood by witches centuries/millenia ago.)
8. What is the nature of god/goddess (conceptually)
9. Is there anything beyond the cosmos?
10. What sort of things is one able to know?
11. Where did I/humankind come from?

Something to ponder while one is bored anyway