Conventional wisdom says religion is for dumb, gullible people and the intelligent elite, as a group, tend to reject faith for science and philosophies of, well… dead Austrian or German men. Why does faith have to be at odds with logic? Why does faith have to presuppose the wholesale rejection of reason or rational thought? I must have missed the chapter in the Bible that said “Reason and Logic will be checked at the door!”

The esteemable WFB pontificates on this line of thinking.

Curbing God’s Laws: On religion, science, church, and state — Much time (and space) are being given to the question of religion and science. There is continuing preoccupation with it, and the question is parsed week after week in different theaters: Is God admissible in purposive thought? Some say that the rejection of religion is a primary step in intelligent thought. Contenders on both sides of the issue will sometimes find themselves retreating into caricature. They will say, for instance, that belief in God and belief in science are mutually exclusive, that the renunciation of one is required in order to subscribe to the other. But these caricatures are undermined from within, as when one finds Dr. Kenneth Miller of Brown University, a scientist of high professional esteem who, on Sundays, attends church and professes his faith.

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Go read the whole article. It’s worthy of your time.