In scientific research, faith is a methodological error, since the essence of this method is to doubt everything, confronting our ideas with all available evidence in an attempt to find their flaws. Science, essentially, gives us refutable hypotheses that haven't been refuted... yet. Faith-based religions are part of our collective cultural heritage, and continue to be personally and socially relevant to many people, but they can be an obstacle when one is trying to solving a research problem.

Faith is accepting tradition but it does not mean to do so uncritically without reason.  Science is a communal activity which is based on tradition.  And there too faith is required and there too it does not mean to do it uncritically without reasoning.  Embrassing tradition always comes first since we are communal being that live in the continuity of the past generations.  

Faith is an essential requisite for every human beings .  The faith with the firm achievement may move to the successful action of our life .Faith is very important as it demands a determination  will power & control of the mind for the moving the footsteps to action with the successive result . 

With the faith we have to accept the challenge of the life & in this line if we have to face well many difficulties uncontrollable in this case also we have to not loose our faith  as with our practice & by accepting quite good challenges of the life we have created faith within us  thru the help of our Mind ,Brainpower , with the inner urge & divinity within us which may help us to move to the mountain from a small heal .

As human beings for our action ,career development & other face of a our life we have to accept the challenge for our action & with the controllable faith within us we can certainly accept all the challenges of our life for our successful career .

Our mind all the time works passing thru a thinking phase & it should be the Must for our action of our life as our thinking phase brings the reason within us which remains a part of our action the success of which depends on our determination ,will power ,& faith .

This is my personal opinion 

Me too Prof , I believe in faith and reasoning !!!!

Scientific I don't care ... When I believe something strongly then I can reason it out , yep the way I want . Again sorry will not care about anybody or anything !!!

I am sure of one thing and that is my faith has a strong foothold /intution on things my parents have shown by leading their lives , so I need no reasoning more than this ...

Yes, I also consider that there is a close, even ontological relationship between Faith and Reason; in such a way that one feeds back to the other; but:

• I find it difficult to separate them and know which one emerges first, since it depends on which phenomena or stimuli a certain subject perceives and values.
• In addition, what are these phenomena and what nature and essence are made of these stimulating phenomena - how much energy they have and if they are sufficient to impress their consciousness, in order to elaborate, both rational, axiological and religious thoughts.

There must be.

Yes, there is. Faith gives us sound reasons to pursue specific actions and deeds.

For instance, I have strong faith that a paradisic earth full of joy and peace will be given to the peaceful, righteous and meek ones. Thus, it gives me sound reasons not to tread the treacherous path of the wicked ones and refrain from engaging in loose moral acts such as fornication, lies, backbiting, and other vile things rampant in human societies today. Best regards

Dickson Adom

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact..Leslie Stephan

Many times in order to find the reason behind a faith will reveal the real truth

Dear Kirk,

The human consciousness include a basic level of sensory-motor realities, on top of which or in term of which a more abstract level this one self-controled , a level of reason or abstraction of basic level of sensory-motor realities that have been sociality agreed in formal languages,this is scientific thinking; the activities of the body controled by the first level and the activities of the Mind doing science in the second level are both guided by the emotional side of consciousness. Convergence of the activities in real life of the body or convergence of the scientific activity of the Mind will depend mostly on the emotional attitude of the agent into thrusting its emotional side well connected to the deep insight of life about the world . This deep thrusting, very difficult to achieve for agent living in cultural setting pushing them towards other ends, is what Faith is. It is the unfallen thrusting in Life, the purest expression of free will and what Art is.

So I consider the science as a form of arts and define faith into the thrusting of the right emotion for guiding life action. I define faith as letting ourself guide by life in spite of numerous external societal pressure pushing otherwise. The difficulty resides in not being afraid of the price that will have to be paid. So Reason, like all arts is totally symbiotic with Faith.

This being said, Faith here become heroism. One of the best talk about heroism is for me: On the Heroic Mind

BY GIAMBATTISTA VICO

Regards

I agree with dear Dr.Dickson.

Emad

Faith is frequently described as defying reason. Not so? Even the most devout, or perhaps I should say especially the most devout, won't attempt to explain God's will to anyone.

Dear Colleagues, Good Day,

"Faith and Reason

Traditionally, faith and reason have each been considered to be sources of justification for religious belief. Because both can purportedly serve this same epistemic function, it has been a matter of much interest to philosophers and theologians how the two are related and thus how the rational agent should treat claims derived from either source. Some have held that there can be no conflict between the two—that reason properly employed and faith properly understood will never produce contradictory or competing claims—whereas others have maintained that faith and reason can (or even must) be in genuine contention over certain propositions or methodologies. Those who have taken the latter view disagree as to whether faith or reason ought to prevail when the two are in conflict. Kierkegaard, for instance, prioritizes faith even to the point that it becomes positively irrational, while Locke emphasizes the reasonableness of faith to such an extent that a religious doctrine’s irrationality—conflict with itself or with known facts—is a sign that it is unsound. Other thinkers have theorized that faith and reason each govern their own separate domains, such that cases of apparent conflict are resolved on the side of faith when the claim in question is, say, a religious or theological claim, but resolved on the side of reason when the disputed claim is, for example, empirical or logical. Some relatively recent philosophers, most notably the logical positivists, have denied that there is a domain of thought or human existence rightly governed by faith, asserting instead that all meaningful statements and ideas are accessible to thorough rational examination. This has presented a challenge to religious thinkers to explain how an admittedly nonrational or transrational form of language can hold meaningful cognitive content.

This article traces the historical development of thought on the interrelation of religious faith and reason, beginning with Classical Greek conceptions of mind and religious mythology and continuing through the medieval Christian theologians, the rise of science proper in the early modern period, and the reformulation of the issue as one of ‘science versus religion’ in the twentieth century.",...

Please, see the source for further reading,...

http://www.iep.utm.edu/faith-re/

Thanks so much for the article recommendation, Hazim!

Dear Colleagues, Good Day,

"The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason."

---- Joseph Glanvill

Dear Kirk,

You may like the historical viewpoint of Lawrence M. Principe

Scientism and the Religion of Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFVARio4pAk

Regards

Dear Colleagues, Good Day,

"Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies."

----- Mahatma Gandhi