Can logic, critical thinking, and religious faith all go together?

Question

Why or why not?

Answer 1

of course they can
i try to live by all of these
and im sure many others do
i accept what makes sense to me , i drop what doesnt
religion doesnt have to be rigid

Answer 2

Yes. I believe that you must use logic and look at all sides when you decide what you are going to believe in. God or nothing. You have to decide the better argument. You must search for your answers. When someone preaches to you, you must search the Scriptures to see if they are correct. You must use critical thinking when it comes to the way you believe or you will not be able to defend your faith (your decision). If you can't explain your faith, when questions arise or you are put to the test, your faith will falter and will possibly fail.

I wasn't always a Christian. I grew up the same as everybody else. I learned evolution. But it seemed the theory had holes in it. I don't know that I ever really believed everything in that theory. Even the evolutionists disagreed. I mean brachiosaurus used to be brontosaurus. I understand that people make mistakes. But when you make this whole theory and teach it as fact and then 5 years later say, oops, wrong dino, wrong age. At the same time creationists are discovering archaeology from the Bible that evolutionists thought didn't exist. You have to weigh the evidence.

When I was witnessed to by a co-worker, she said some things that made sense, but not enough to follow her leading.
A few years later in college a friend and I got into a discussion about God. I began searching for what I believed. I looked at all points. The way I went, I believe was the only truth. God. There are absolutes. I believe I found the truth.

Answer 3

Certainly. Not all scientist are atheists. Not all religious people of various faiths are ignorant fundamentalists. Einstein was no atheist and he used logic and critical thinking. There is no real reason that people can not have religious faith and also apply logic and critical thinking. All scientific theories break down at the beginning of time anyway (Stephen Hawking)

Answer 4

Faith is belief without proof or even supporting evidence.

Obviously, this contradicts logic and critical thinking.

Answer 5

No, because by definition critical thinking and logic is the exact opposite of faith. The former requires that you base your beliefs on empirical evidence, the latter requires that you stick to your beliefs irregardless of empirical evidence.

Answer 6

No it can not, simply because logic, and common sense conflicts with religious faith.

Answer 7

I think that they can. At least logic, critical thinking and faith seem to work together.

I'm not sure about the religion part.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 8

NO- because religions only go by what they are being preached to , like zombies! God forbid , if something is mentioned out side the box , they just freak out and the world comes to an end!

Answer 9

Faith is having hope in things the eye has not seen nor the ear has not heard. It is relying totally in God in all.

Answer 10

Yep. God didn't give us brains to be ignorant. He gave us wisdom. So we're to get in life and do the unimaginable like everyone else except we have God to help us and guide us to go even further than man alone.

Answer 11

nope. even if your "religion" is to take value from the known world, you have to leave "religious faith" out in order to have the other two.