Alan: Since there is little or no evidence "backing up" most of reality -- consider the inscrutable fact that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- faith plays a proper role in human affairs.
But when emotion masquerades as evidence -- and the temptation to make this substitution is eternal -- faith is no longer faith but a sort of simian pseudo-science that dependably damages both science and faith.
The abiding shame of the three Abrahamic religions is that they see one another as infidels, not only deserving death but endless torment in a Hell that only an omniscient, omnipotent God could devise.
To its credit, Judaism's view of Hell is less punitive than the postulates of Christianity and Islam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell#Judaism
The abiding shame of the three Abrahamic religions is that they see one another as infidels, not only deserving death but endless torment in a Hell that only an omniscient, omnipotent God could devise.
To its credit, Judaism's view of Hell is less punitive than the postulates of Christianity and Islam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell#Judaism
Devout Christian, Blaise Pascal
"Conservatives Trust In Science Hits All-Time Low," U.S. News & World Report
Arguing against those who said that natural philosophy was contrary to the Christian faith, (Aquinas) writes in his treatise "Faith, Reason and Theology that "even though the natural light of the human mind is inadequate to make known what is revealed by faith, nevertheless what is divinely taught to us by faith cannot be contrary to what we are endowed with by nature. One or the other would have to be false, and since we have both of them from God, he would be the cause of our error, which is impossible." "Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World" by John Freely http://www.amazon.com/Aladdins-Lamp-Science-Through-Islamic/dp/0307277836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327882581&sr=8-1
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