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by jgrowl
1389 days ago
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Therein lies the True eternal distinction between Reason and Faith. Reason is that which can be known and where it ceases becomes Faith.
They are separate parallel structures, to mistake one for the other is folly. We know that everything we can see originated as a single point of one uniformly distributed substance. We know that everything we can see will return into one uniformly distributed substance (Heat and red-shifted light). Belief is Necessary to fill in the gaps between creation cycles (Or its rejection entirely). |
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Nah. Reason is just the best model we have at the time, given the evidence that we have.
For example, Newtonian physics is a pretty darn good way of looking at the universe and it works well. It was thought of as "known". But of course, I'm sure everyone here knows that Einsteinian physics replaced Newtonian physics with a more accurate model of the universe.
Faith is different in that it is based on no evidence. For example, in christendom, they say there's a heaven, with no testable evidence, or that there's a god, let alone the one that they think exists as opposed to Kali or Uhuru-Mazda, or the other hundredss of thousands of gods that have been professed to be real.
>Belief is Necessary to fill in the gaps between creation cycles (Or its rejection entirely).
eh....despite what the author says, it is conceivable that a scientific solution could be found for the creation. But with faith, just saying "God done it" is something that requires no work, no new knowledge, and not even an attempt at new knowledge. Belief is something necessary when one is just too lazy to try to figure out the actual solution, or to disprove one's belief and accept that it is wrong.