Faith and Reason- Outside Source

     For my Evan Almighty essay, I had to look into a lot of philosophical concepts. This is only the second philosophy class and because I am not well versed in the subject it was a little hard to keep track of, but that is not to say that there weren't nuggets of information that I was able to use in my essay. 

    I wanted to answer the question: How does a person's reason out weight a person's faith, and why does this happen to faithful people? The answer, in essence, is actually more simple than I thought. Essentially, knowledge is commonly described as what is true, however, believing in God is not unreasonable because His truth cannot be proven. This makes sense and it is an argument that it is used commonly by both believers and non-believers alike. This shows that reason and faith are not at odds with each other but are intertwined. So now my analysis changes from why did reason 'beat' faith, to why did the people not believe now as a product of exercising their reason. Simply put, they live in a modern age where most things can be explained by science, and most of the characters in the film were not heavily Christian. This was a super interesting read and showed me how my perceptions about humanity can be wrong, and how I should dig deeper before judging. 

Source: Anthony Kenny, Knowledge, Belief, and Faith, Philosophy, Cambridge Press

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