Religion: Reason and faith발음듣기
Religion: Reason and faith
(intro music) Hi, my name is Greg Ganssle, and I am a Senior Fellow at the Rivendell Institute at Yale University.발음듣기
That if I hold something by faith, it's not also the case that I have good reasons to hold it. or if I am reasoning about something, it's not the case that I have faith.발음듣기
Some of the reason that it's difficult today to relate faith and reason has to do with how we talk about what we believe.발음듣기
It must mean something else. It means something like "I have confidence in the Constitution," or "I think it's a good thing," or "I trust it."발음듣기
It has to be more than "I believe recycling exists" or "I believe it's good to recycle," because I could tell you that I believe it's good to recycle.발음듣기
I believe that has to do with making certain claims, and those claims are either true or false.발음듣기
Or I've been to Washington, DC, and I've been to the archives, and I've seen his signature on documents.발음듣기
All of these are bits of evidence that my claim, the claim "I believe that George Washington existed," is true.발음듣기
For many people, it means not only do I believe the claim that God exists, but somehow God is an important part of my life.발음듣기
The sentence "I believe in God" goes in two directions: I believe that God exists, and somehow I make God an important part of my life.발음듣기
In the sentence "I believe in God," which has these two divergent tracks, reason applies mostly to one track: "I believe that God exists."발음듣기
And it's exactly at that claim that reason applies the most: "Is there evidence?", "Are there reasons to think God exists?", "Or reasons to think God doesn't?"발음듣기
Some of the other videos in this series discuss various reasons to think either God does exist or God doesn't exist.발음듣기
Some people have complained that religious believers' confidence or trust in God goes much further than what reason can support.발음듣기
If you've ever driven down Interstate Ninety-Five in Connecticut, you know it's kind of dangerous.발음듣기
When you get into your car, you know that you do not have absolute certainty that you will make it to New York without breaking down or without crashing, because people break down and crash every day.발음듣기
So your confidence that the claim "You will make it to New York" is true is less than one hundred percent.발음듣기
You commit yourself wholly to the car, yet you know that it's less than one hundred percent certain.발음듣기
Now, it's a very small chance, but your certainty you will be safe is less than one hundred percent.발음듣기
There are certain decisions in life that require either one hundred percent or zero percent commitment, and these decisions hold or are binding on us, even if our reason tells us we have less than one hundred percent certainty.발음듣기
We can have evidence perhaps that God exists, but the question of God's existence is not purely theoretical.발음듣기
There may be something where we commit ourselves to God, and that commitment might require going beyond the degree of evidence.발음듣기
So when faith and reason seem to come in conflict, sometimes it's because reason applies to one part of the question, "Is the claim true or false?", but reason is more indirect with the second question, "Should I commit myself?"발음듣기
Now, the final illustration for this point is, if you were ever to get married, you would not commit yourself to your spouse simply in proportion to your evidence that he or she would make a good partner.발음듣기
That's very bad relationship advice. Assess "Is this a good partner?", and then you commit yourself fully.발음듣기
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