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Reason Vs Faith Research Paper

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Reason vs. Faith
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Of all that I believe, of all the I think about the world: how much of it is actually true? What’s more: how do I know? Human beings have asked themselves these critical throughout history, and in countless areas of thought. =========================The problem of reason versus faith is, at root, a problem of how to answer these questions. The problem of faith and reason is, therefore, epistemological: a problem of how we know what we claim to know. =========================
We will briefly consider this problem, for now, in the religious domain of human thought. For it is here where that problem takes on its most vivid appearance. =========================
Philosophers have had a great deal of …show more content…

From Aristotle, who introduced to us the roots of what we now call physics, psychology, astronomy, chemistry, and more; to Francis Bacon, credited with having devised scientific method—a means by which gather facts and make reliable assertions about objects of study; to Rene Descartes, who emphasized the importance of considering first principles in research; to Karl Popper, or Thomas Kuhn, who forced us to consider the philosophical as much as the social grounds on which scientific claims of knowledge …show more content…

What’s the difference between a being that realizes itself in time, and a being that realizes itself beyond time?
=========================Perhaps the following model could suffice: imagine you have a line. But instead of it being a succession of points in space (measured for some number inches, feet, miles...whatever the unit), let’s look at that line in another way. Let’s pretend this line is a succession of moments in time. (Again the units of measurement don’t make a difference to us here, whether seconds or eons). =========================
Now, we have atleast two ways to view the passing of time represented by the line (and of course, we’re ignoring the faults in this model for explanatory purposes, for now). One way to view this passage of time would be temporally: seeing each moment as succeeding another from past to future. In spatial terms, this is like standing outside of a tunnel, watching the cars enter at one end and exit at another: you see a car enter the tunnel at moment-1, you see it go a fourth of the way through at moment-2, another fourth of the way at moment-3, all the way to when the care finally leaves.

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