Response To https://twitter.com/NewbornTight/status/739163261094875137

To me, science seems to suggest that reasoned planning and behavior is based upon perception of decision-critical conditions, and that human perception is limited and fallible. If decision-critical conditions exist outside of the scope of perception, or if perception is subject to error, reasoned behavior does not seem based upon the actual state of decision-critical conditions, but upon assumption of conditions outside the current scope of perception, and upon assumption of perceptual accuracy. To me, that assumption seems referred to as bestowing "faith", "trust", or "confidence", and seems to participate in all human reasoning.

Re: "How reliable is faith", to me, the issue does not seem to be how reliable faith is, but rather, how reliable the object of faith is. To me, the Bible, science's findings and history seem reasonably interpreted as suggesting that God is reliable and that humans are not reliable with regard to administration of the human experience, and perhaps especially, with regard to administration of the God/human relationship.

Response To https://twitter.com/AtheistEngineer/status/738490968161280000

However, perhaps similarly to math, "showing your work", when compared to solely presenting an answer, seems to involve more detail and accommodative resources apparently key to demonstrating the reasoning upon which an answer is based.