What you say is true concerning the physical environment. It was my intention to include the other environmental aspects as well - God, family, society.
IMHO, man can be so rebellious as to put his own desires above everything. For instance, selling national security secrets that could cause the death of millions including his own family - or raping and killing a young girl and posing her body in a "suggestive" manner.
Man is the only creature known to me that is capable of such rebellion.
You remind me of what I see missing in this thread, a discussion of human passion. It is not so much faith that is opposed to reason, but passion and human desires that are opposed to reason. Is murder reasonable? Is any sort of destruction reasonable? Does not seem so to me, yet it is passion and desire that most often leads to such actions.