This website is intended to be an exhibition of my thinking on  matters of faith. I guess you could call it an apologia for my personal faith. My reasons for producing it are to strengthen my faith and to share it with others who are perhaps looking for something similar.

It is obvious from the advancement of science and technology that the human intellect when guided by certain principles is a very powerful tool. However, I also believe that it has its limits, and that there are certain questions for which the intellect alone is incapable of providing answers . These questions are questions of the ultimate nature of reality and the meaning of life.

Some schools of thought, logical positivism for one, argue that such questions are meaningless and based on erroneous thinking. Just because a question can be asked does not mean that it is a meaningful question, the logical positivist will say.

Such people are materialists and often hold idealist notions in disdain. Many believe that idealism is based on fuzzy, immature thinking and sentimentalism and that it stands in the way of the advancement of human understanding.

I, for one, feel that questions of the ultimate nature of reality and the meaning of human life cry out for answers. Perhaps this is a sentimental point of view, but we humans are creatures endowed as much with sentiment as with intellect. I am not content to banish these questions from my mind.

Now, as I said, I am an admirer of the scientific method as a guide for the human intellect in understanding those things of which it is capable, and I feel that up to a certain extent our beliefs should also be guided by certain rational principles. However, I deny scientism the authority to shut the books on questions of which it is incapable of providing answers. The ideas that science will eventually answer these questions or that they are meaningless, are themselves articles of faith and not established facts.

I find the materialist answers to questions of the nature of ultimate reality and the meaning of life to be sterile, cold, and heartless. I feel that since, they can be shown to be beliefs rather than proven facts, that it is not unreasonable to allow myself to believe otherwise.

I share some of the materialists distrust of faith, but on the other hand, I find it hard to live without it. I do however want my faith to be an honest and reasonable one.