Faith and Reason

So, in the last few blogs I have been looking at for the past few weeks, there has been a common theme in my thought process. What's with "reason"? So I know that's a broad thought, and it is one that can be dealt with for a long, long time, but I want to at least play with it for a little bit.

How important is reason to the Christian walk, and furthermore to the everyday walk that all people deal with. There seems to be a great tension with “faith” and “reason” whether it be in Science, Religion, Govt., Church matters, or well just about anyplace else.

We are all children of modernity, well most of us anyway. We were taught a modern view of science (that it is objective and totally correct). Matter does not move without being acted upon first. FACT! Electrons float around in these nice little lines around the outside of the nucleus of an atom. FACT! The speed of light is always constant. FACT!

And then I came to college. There I learned that Science is not objective, but biased just like everything else. I learned that matter does move without being acted upon (quarks inside of atoms), and Electrons are flying all over the place we don’t really know where they are all the time, and the speed of light has actually slowed down over time.

This put me in quite the predicament. Reason was being tested and losing on multiple fronts. I learned that matter can take up the same space at the same time as long as we don’t observe it, and other crazy facts. This then started to change my view of scripture, philosophy, and life in general.

So I think I’m going to play with this idea in my next few posts, but I’d like some reactions first. Where does reason fit in with religion? Where does Faith fit in with life as a whole … Am I exercising it at least a bit when I take a step, or sit down?