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...minutes of commercials per hour. On Saturday evening at South Station, the radio station didn’t seem to be much cause for attention. A lone guitarist was playing for the crowds, and his music effectively drowned out the T-Radio. Songs played include “The Reason?? by Hoobastank, “Every Breath You Take” by the Police, and “Before He Cheats” by Carrie Underwood (the only song to which some actually could be seen singing along). Student opinion was mixed on the subject of bringing...
Some, however, were not so sanguine, and in the person of Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker they found an advocate to express their anxiety about the role of religion, particularly under the category of “Faith and Reason?? in a required undergraduate curriculum. Old hostilities to religion as a legitimate area of inquiry were aroused, as was the specter of sinister creationists and out-of-the-closet Jesuits. It was bad enough to have a large and visible chapel here, but to give faith and reason a place in a curriculum long ceded to scientism...
...rationalists did themselves no favor by scuttling the “Reason and Faith” idea. Forget religion: More Americans believe in astrology than in evolution. The way to combat unreason is to have students engage the dissonance between faith and reason??not avoid it. Instead, faith seems now to have been renamed “belief” and paired with “culture,” where it will ruffle no feathers...
...write in response to the article “Faith and Reason?? (magazine, May 2) about the relationship between science and faith at Harvard...
...causes. The worst effect of this is that it is to suggest that an established value cannot be maintained in modernity unless it takes on the style and rhetoric of its counter-movement. If an old value cannot be sustained through historical memory, there must be an extremely compelling reason??beyond say, a mostly controllable health risk—for its defense to continue. And if bearers of a cause have to invent new justifications for their beliefs—if they are unwilling to ascribe to (or admit to ascribing to) traditional justifications, they...