“Reason” proponents indicate that reason clarifies; explains the world before us, is coherent and reliable and testable, is the spine of science and technology, solves complex problems; etc.

“Faith” advocates argue that faith answers unanswerable questions, gives us hope in tough situations, handles crisis well, makes us strong, motivates, offers existential and ultimate meaning, provides comfort and moral frameworks, reaches where reason cannot reach, takes us beyond logic and addresses truth beyond reasoning, etc. Faith is more powerful when it comes to divine truth, they insist.

But some are of the view that “faith” denies the facts, is dogmatic and empirically unverifiable and not reasonable, pretends to know but actually does not know the truth, sometimes leads us to misplaced trust

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