What approaches/means might one use to integrate faith and learning?

Question

What approaches/means might one use to integrate faith and learning? Identify and explain the varied means. Finally, identify which approaches you have used, citing a few specific examples; or, identify which approaches you feel best fit you and why?

Answer 1

Get it the **** outta there.

Answer 2

To tell you the truth, I have never understood why the two have ever been considered incompatible.
If you are a believer, and you are taught that you must just believe this or that because your faith tells you you must, (using bible, quoran, talmud, etc as the only way to 'see' things) then (in my humble opinion) that is missing the whole point in having, or if you believe you were created, being given a brain to think with.

Why would we have such a phenomenally powerful and complex aspect of our human-ness, if we were supposed to ignore it?
It is there to be used, just as your heart and circulatory system are.

Learning is the only way a person can fulfil and satisfy his "human-ness", and without it we might as well be cabbages!

Not only that, but if one had a religious or faith-based belief, one could look at it as being the ultimate slap in the face to "whoever" gave it to you ~ like saying "naah, I don't need to use this thing ~ I'll just take whatever I'm told.......I'm just going to ignore my brain's need to learn ~~~ because my faith tells me I must.

Most thinking people realize that the two, as I said, are not incompatible. e.g. Why couldn't "God" have set the whole thing in motion, and allowed everything to unfold the way science tells us it did? It is the height of arrogance to assume that the only way it all came together is the way it says in a book which was written in the form of simple metaphors for the common, uneducated man to be able to grasp simply.

I have both subscribed to a strict faith (R.C.) in the past, and become a scientist. It has not killed all of my beliefs, but it has certainly broadened my way of looking at some of the teachings I was supposed to have taken as gospel, (!) so to speak.

It is a very interesting subject, and I wish more would ask your question.