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Emily Harper commented on Are faith and reason incompatible? on March 21, 2008, 7:37 PM
It might be so that the feelings for joy and happiness, etc have not been significantly proven by science, this is true. But since when in christianity does something have to be proven to hold its own? Though we have made leaps and bounds in the field of science, we have not yet discovered the hows and whys of everything. Of course we have made much headway with the psychology behind emotions. Since God's world is so incredibly complicated, there are things that will always be out of our scientific reach, however that does not demerit the work that is being done or has already been done. Much like faith itself, just because you don't understand something does not mean that it has(n't) a divine correlation.
Emily Harper commented on Are faith and reason incompatible? on March 21, 2008, 3:49 PM
Having faith is is not such a bad thing. Reason is just as important. I have faith that God somewhere along the beginning created this thing we call life and earth. I have the reason to understand, however, that the bible is not the fundamental structure of life's history. What kind of reasoner would you be to think that the entire scope of history and development can't go beyond our human capability of understanding? A three year old can understand that world was created in 6 days, 6,000 years ago... so on and so forth. It takes lifetimes of scientists to answer questions about the physical world around us. Do you not think that God would have left something for us to ponder? Maybe God would have liked us to use the intellect he has given us to be able to solve the puzzle called science that will at some point bring us back to understanding where we really began. I think that this is how faith and reason are entirely compatible.
Emily Harper commented on Are faith and reason incompatible? on March 21, 2008, 3:37 PM
It might be so that the feelings for joy and happiness, etc have not been significantly proven by science, this is true. But since when in christianity does something have to be proven to hold its own? Though we have made leaps and bounds in the field of science, we have not yet discovered the hows and whys of everything. Of course we have made much headway with the psychology behind emotions. Since God's world is so incredibly complicated, there are things that will always be out of our scientific reach, however that does not demerit the work that is being done or has already been done. Much like faith itself, just because you don't understand something does not mean that it has(n't) a divine correlation.
Emily Harper commented on Are faith and reason incompatible? on March 21, 2008, 7:49 PM
Having faith is is not such a bad thing. Reason is just as important. I have faith that God somewhere along the beginning created this thing we call life and earth. I have the reason to understand, however, that the bible is not the fundamental structure of life's history. What kind of reasoner would you be to think that the entire scope of history and development can't go beyond our human capability of understanding? A three year old can understand that world was created in 6 days, 6,000 years ago... so on and so forth. It takes lifetimes of scientists to answer questions about the physical world around us. Do you not think that God would have left something for us to ponder? Maybe God would have liked us to use the intellect he has given us to be able to solve the puzzle called science that will at some point bring us back to understanding where we really began. I think that this is how faith and reason are entirely compatible.