“Faith and reason live in harmany if you love the truth and pursue it. There is only a conflict if you are afraid of examining the veracity of your own beleifs.”
How aptly put!
God doesn’t expect you to have “faith” in somthing unreasonable.
Isa.1:18
[18] Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
Paul certainly “reasoned” with people about his faith:
Acts.18:1 - 16
[1] After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
[2] And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
[3] And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
[4] And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
[5] And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
[6] And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Darwin was bitter and angry at God for taking away his daughter:
“... who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.”
Faith and “reason” are best friends; not enemies.
I have never heard an argument for naturalism that was not based on the presumption of naturalism.
What Darwin said at the last: “I am conscious that I am in an utterly hopeless muddle. I cannot think that the world, as we see it, is the result of chance; and yet I cannot look at each separate thing as the result of design”.
Charles Darwin
He was totally conflicted to the end. I pray that he found it before he died.