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Re: Are faith and reason incompatible?
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Dalia Mogahed
Uploaded on 11/19/2007

Description: Mogahed's faith fuels her intellectual inquiry.

Transcript: Well I think that I wouldn’t even call it a balance, because a balance would imply a tradeoff between the two.  And I don’t think there is a tradeoff.  I think that my deeply held faith teaches me to intellectual inquiry.  It teaches integrity and honesty.  And I think that those are the core principles of good scientific inquiry.  So I have to be true to my discoveries and true to the rigor of the data, and report it exactly that way in order to be true to the values that I hold most dear.  And so I don’t think I ever feel it is a balance, but rather that one helps to assure the other; that they are co . . . that they strengthen one another; that religious principles should inspire scientists to do the best work they can.

Recorded on: 7/3/07

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Re: Re: Are faith and reason incompatible?

Compatible? Too inaccurate.

 

We are not talking about a tangible relationship or one's proximity to it let alone that a sodium/water reaction from such a pairing may be what was intended. I love fireworks!

 

Faith and reason are intellectual activities, fundamentally intangible. In their purest definition and understanding they appear precisely intertwined on a greater palet of knowledge, each a process in degrees of realization toward an enlightenment, or revealing, of what is being reasoned toward or believed in. Awareness has much to do with increasing certainty of both.

 

Any sense or perception of incompatibility may more accurately be a cognitively dissonant experience encountered upon their juncture having inadequate understanding between them. In a way, can you really not get there from here in a purely intellectual exercise? It's the first exercise in which one should be able to succeed in this respect.

 

Compatible? They're inseparably (inextricably?) dependent upon one another for a full understanding of each.

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