[Elsie]

Faith is tested by inferential and deductive illogic. ---  Oh, THIS WAY....

 

That which cannot be true in light of our intellectual faculties, is accepted as true nevertheless on the basis of faith. ---  Oh, THIS WAY....

Scientific propositions are tested by the inverse of this test for faith. ---  Oh, THIS WAY....

And the two, proceeding as they must in polar opposite directions, cannot meet in the middle.---  and finally, THIS WAY!

 

 

[atlaw]

Well, gee Elsie. Not much of a response.

How else do you propose that faith be tested if not against that which would otherwise be unfathomable to our sense of logic or our perceptions? How else, for example, was the faith and integrity of Job to be tested except through the illogic of great affliction on an otherwise blameless and upright man?

And how else do you propose that scientific propositions be tested except against the the inverse of this test for faith -- i.e., against that which our logic and our perceptions tell us should be so?