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July-August 2000
Volume 88, Number 4
DOI: 10.1511/2000.29.0
Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic. But it uses logic to explain and test and develop the insights on which it is based.
Religion is not all that different. To say it is based on faith, not logic, is both false and totally misrepresents what we mean by faith.
Explaining faith is like trying to explain a joke, or trying to describe a color to a blind person....
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