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very in-depth in the person. Finally, to the person, religion can reach
reasoning, although not to everyone. Summarizing, the religion can follow
each of the ways of knowing to make the person differentiate his belief from
believing it is true to actually thinking it is true. It will not necessarily follow
the same pattern with everyone having as an outcome other religions and
atheism.
We have complete and complicated ways of proven conjectures and other
mathematical and scientific facts which can lead to years and years of
investigating. In the practical fields of science, math and history, empirical
evidence is needed as a way of knowledge to prove the veracity of these
ones. In the arts and religion it goes different, almost the opposite. Finding
reliable information in the internet about theology which uses logic and/or
valid arguments may be difficult. In the long battle of atheism versus
religion we can find various numbers from each band which simply have
invalid arguments. But Marshall gives us in simple words how faith can
differentiate something believed to be true from something which is true. He
says: When I cross a bridge, I assume it will not fall down. If it does fall
down, my assumption will have proven to be in error. But the act of crossing
the bridge is an act of faith, in the sense I am using the word, as is the act of
praying to god. He claims this to be a form of reasoning, relating reasoning
to faith. Marshall states that each scientific theory, putting as an example
the Theory of Gravity, needs to be backed up by faith. Following the gravity
example, the scientist who wants to make a conjecture or theory following
as a base the gravity theorem, must have faith in the veracity of the gravity
theory for him to develop his own theory. If we reach the day in which the
gravity theory is disproven, many other branches will fall with it needing
faith as something necessary. Relating this to the thesis of this essay, even
in science and math, according to Marshall in his book The act of reasoning,
we need faith in the veracity of the knowledge we already have as a
Christian has faith in the existence of God. Faith may be the most complex
or difficult way in which a person can differentiate what he believes to be
true from what it is actually true, but it can hiec et ubique.
As a summary, the different ways of knowing can help us differentiate what
is believed to be true from what it is actually true. In this thesis, we have
two opposite sides having reasoning with empirical evidence in one side and
faith in the other side. With reasoning applied in the areas of knowledge
such as math, natural and human sciences, history, et al, we can discover a
various ways of proving things. Although, to prove such things we need
years and years of investigating reaching the point in which it can take more
than two centuries to prove a fact which certainly was true, for example, the
weak Goldbach Conjecture, proven in 2013. With reasoning we need
imagination, intuition, language, memory, et al in different ways. Going to
the other point, faith can help us prove things without having the empirical
evidence of it by having as an objective only believing in its veracity.
Although, it can also be used in all the areas of knowledge thanks to the
faith we need in the previous knowledge we have, as stated by Marshall. As