As someone who is a strong supporter of both faith and reason, I get tired of hearing people, even highly educated people, talk about faith in a way that completely misrepresents it. For example, it is not uncommon to hear a sentence that goes something like this: “Faith, by definition, is believing something without evidence or even against the evidence.” Part of what gets to me about this type of comment is they are usually made with such authoritative ease and self-importance, but my main problem with them is they are completely wrong. Faith does not refer to believing something even when reason points in the other direction. On the contrary, the Bible claims following reason will lead us to faith/Benjamin Ledford, UI Argonaut. More here.

Question: Are faith and reason mutually exclusive? Or does reason lead to faith, as Argonaut columnist Benjamin Ledford contends?