Faith and Thinking

There is no confrontation between faith and thinking, as they do not exclude each other, but they complement each other. Thinking does not cause religious beliefs to waiver. On the contrary, deep thinking, especially scientific thinking brings you closer to realization that the essence of all things natural presupposes a general idea of an intelligent source beyond the natural phenomena. It arises as a scientific idea, kind of Einstein's mental experiment, which you almost immediately begin to believe in and look for scientific proof of. But the reality we begin to deal with then is not strictly speaking physical reality and turns out to be beyond the scientific means of appraisal. Faith is based on scientifically proved evidence! There are many pieces of evidence to support our faith in that personified intelligent force which is present beyond the realm of space and time. That force, or a person, has been made manifest to us in certain ways observable and scientifically verifiable. Nonetheless, many of those manifestations cannot be explained by science so far. Thus we have miracles.  Therefore, those things we have come to believe in by intuition, even by scientific intuition and insight, including as a result of certain scientific experiments, which we cannot fully measure, explain or verify by means of our contemporary scientific methods and instruments, coexist side by side with those of our observations and witnesses of phenomena which had taken place in our daily lives as well as in the lives of people who had lived before us and which have become the evidential base of most common human beliefs and convictions which likewise cannot be fully explained by our contemporary science. But faith and religious beliefs have been always forged and supported, not annulled, by the force of various kinds of evidence observed and most carefully thought through by the most prominent thinkers. Faith and scientific thinking have been working hand in hand for thousands of years. Atheism is a relatively recent invention; it is a consequence of materialistic philosophical inventions that accompanied industrial revolution. Observation and thinking, in the process of understanding the world around us, has long brought us to the idea of reconnecting us with the essential intelligent super natural force behind the natural phenomena. The progress of humanity is moving towards the outer frontier of the phenomenal visible world of the physical nature where beyond that line, between visible and invisible, between life and death we are supposed to enter a completely different realm. That line between the visible and invisible, between the known and unknown, that frontier between our knowledge and faith is constantly moving forward in the direction of faith! Faith precedes knowledge and paves the way of human progress both in everyday life and in science. Knowledge takes place of faith and pushes the object of faith further beyond our mental horizon. Recoiling from the most advanced scientific discoveries and moving away from the frontier of human thought back to the most primitive morally and irresponsibly shortsighted toying with the basest natural matter is a step backward in human progress. We need to move on, the armor of thought and virtue protecting us from fallacy, the sword of knowledge in our hands, the shield of our faith pushing forward like into battle.