Circular nonsense.
So faith defies human reason because it arises not from within man, but from the object of itself?
Wait...it gets better! When you consider that human capacity for reason itself is derived from the notion that we were "made in god's image," yet the source itself is the one entity to which this reason cannot be applied...oh, fits of laughter!
This, to me, is the mental equivalent of dogs chasing their own tails.
No, the idea of god exists because of human reason, not in spite of it. Like many forces in nature, our sense of reason abhors a vacuum, and things for which we have little or no understanding demand explanations. Religion and mythology represent a paradigm for understanding existence and purpose constructed by mankind in his infancy as a social animal. I tend to believe as Kuhn does, that such paradigms are not changed gradually or peaceably, but are shifted in revolutionary leaps...and that individuals generally lack the capacity to follow such shifts, clinging instead to the models familiar to them until death. As we trudge toward our social and technological adolescence, as our understanding of nature evolves progressively, the trappings of superstition will continue to die away with each passing generation until the god of Abraham takes his rightful place alongside Zeus on Olympus.
