The Science of Faith
Faith and Science are constantly being represented as opposites in the arena of how we arrange to believe something. The usual view is that faith takes it as given without examination, while science insists upon proving it. Faith appears absolute, to be utterly relied upon; the other is always relative to the evidence, but once established scientifically it's assumed it can always be relied upon. Thus, in their different ways, faith and science always achieve the same outcome-apparent certainty. Ever since Thomas Aquinas brokered an arrangement between faith and reason in the mid-13th century, facilitating their coexistence without threatening God-science to deal with matters of this world, while God dominated the next one-reality has been divided between the two elements of psychic function, faith and reason. Though this has happened not without a great deal of violent struggle-the Inquisition and Holy wars of the next 4 centuries-as the details were ironed out when Protestanti...