Every culture agrees, in general terms, that good is to be done and evil avoided.
Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.
If we did not have the freedom to say no to God, we could not truly love Him.
In the real world, in the everyday lives of billions of believers--not least of them scientists—faith and reason coexist without contradiction.
It is as foolish to reject the senses because they sometimes seem to deceive us as it is to reject mathematics because we sometimes make mistakes in our checkbooks.
It’s all well and good to say that reality exists only in one’s mind, but those who believe it should still look both ways before crossing the street.
The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable, and God has willed them to be knowable, even in the absence of strong emotion or apparent miracles.
The natural law is a beautiful reality, an empirically verifiable fact of creation. Together with natural theology, it is accessible to everyone as a kind of ‘natural religion.’
Through most of history, most sane people affirmed the existence of some divinity.
