- An interesting relationship is the one between reason and faith, religion and science. Since reason & science are often paired in opposition to faith & religion, people often have strong feelings about both, loving one while hating the other, on both sides. Share your own thoughts on the relationship between faith and reason, science and religion. Where does reason end and faith begin? Or, are the two inseparable? Can one help the other or are they necessarily opposites? Do you even accept faith at all as a viable means of gaining answers or do you have to see in order to accept something as truth? Are you comfortable believing that there are some things humans will never figure out the answers to through reason and science? (The first answer was at the beginning of the semester and the second was at the end of the semester, it is a compare and contrast of how much we had grown in religious terms.)
· Reason is when you see something, experience it, understand it, and finally live with it. Faith is more like a feeling; you know you have it, sometimes hard to control, it is not reasonable sometimes. The mind can make do of both, reason comes from understanding your experiences, and faith comes from the unknown, untamed side of the mind. We don’t exercise this concept a lot, we do not use it enough to feel it completely, experience it completely, let alone understand it. Both of these have their proper field where one does not usually cross into the other. Science and Religion do not go hand in hand; the same applies when talking comparing Reason and Faith. Just like in Algebra we solve for the unknown variable, life seems to follow the same pattern. For anything we cannot solve use Faith, faith helps us solve many of the world’s greatest enigmas. It has been done so for millions of years, should we change what works for us humans? Is there some way to evolve from our way of thinking? Who knows? I have faith that we can.
· Now that I somewhat understand some of the spiritual side of this world I can truly make a fair judgment. Science and Reason can sometimes NOT agree, they go well most of the times when trying to solve many problems faced by humans. Faith and Religion, in my eyes, are very much like Science and Reason. If we take a look at how things were done years before science and reason were developed we can see that people were already trying to explain things by faith and religion. Yes, they had the curiosity and ventured to ask things such as, “Why does it rain?” In efforts to explain this event people formulated a scheme were a god existed and gave them water for the crops. This can be seen as a very basic step in the Scientific Method. They formulated that because it rained, the gods were happy and wanted their people to live joyous. When it did not rain, they asked the same question, “Why does it not rain?” So, again they came up with the theory that it was their god being unhappy with them. So, (at least in my country) the people would find out ways to make the gods happy. Some would sacrifice, some would pray, and eventually as the years came and the methods were perfected many more methods came about. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they did not; but it was this way that Faith and Religion worked to solve the unexplainable. Years later people would eventually set off fireworks that reached the skies and filled the atmosphere with the burnt produce of combustion. Who knew that by setting off a firework in the sky, that the reaction would produce a chemical imbalance in the air that may produce precipitation? So we cannot discard the fact that it has been faith and religion that has brought upon science and reason to existence.
What would you answer if asked the same?
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