the world has turned and left me here

on faith

I sat through a presentation on critical thinking the other day. It boiled down to making rational arguments, and then I started to wonder, how do you argue that making rational arguments is a good thing? Which was essentially what this speaker was trying to do--but you can't use a logical argument to justify the use of logic, so how the heck do you go about this? How do you convince people to be rational?

It's little things like this that feed my slow-growing conviction that science, at its core, is a sort of religion too. There are always things that you are going to be asked to believe "on faith," even with science. These things that you believe "on faith"--whatever they are--are the important part. The rest is pretty much irrelevant.