My dad was in town last week, which was a good thing :)
We started having a conversation on reason and faith, and my old man seems to steer further and further away from ideas of faith the older he gets. In my experience, faith, like science, is generally agnostic and it is the intentional manipulation that both are vulnerable to by those wanting to take some advantage. Now the idea of agnostic faith may seem strange, but there is some significant literature that suggests that many of the founders of the United States were in fact Deists. I believe that science will ultimately fail to answer questions concerning "soul", "mind" or "consciousness" in any meaningful way, but I've been wrong a time or two before. My point is that it is the search for the meaning of those terms that have driven many of our most cherished philosophical endeavors. In any event, I turned to Bill Moyers for a little help on this one in a series he did for PBS titled "On Faith and Reason"
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