Science, belief and faith

Science, belief and faith

If we want that the question of faith (fundamental question to understand the world as it goes) today it is posed in terms suited to our time, it should be formulated different from the Vatican, theologians and thinkers religious do. Since the disappearance of Jean Gagnepain, there is some of that! In reality, the mutations of scientific knowledge are that we can no longer have the same religious perspective that when it opposed the sciences called from “nature” to the faith, the Aristotelian reason to the Muslim faith (like Averroès) or to the Christian faith (as Thomas Aquinas:) all of this has become ridiculous! Let talk  about something else. There is in here that anthropologists perhaps have a word to say.

The way in which I will ask the problem requires to dissociate the act of faith (whatever the religion to which you belong or not), a dogmatic whatever, I mean a system of beliefs, that is institutionalized, (as in the Catholic Church) or that which is not (as in the Protestantism).In other words, it is, in order to ask the problem, to exceed the dogmas to envisage the act of faith. This problem, in the generations who have preceded us, was as virtually resolved (which, I say to you immediately, is not the case.) But how claimed them to have it resolved? It had taken his party, since the Renaissance, to separate very clearly two universe: the “safe” and the “not sure,” the nature and supernatural, in other words, since Bacon the “naturalist philosophic” and “supernaturalis philosopher” (which is opposed to theology.) Yet in the end of the XIX century, a disciple of Augusto Comte (representing the positivism,) said in speaking of a possible beyond, that it was an ocean where there was no bark,

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