Why should we doubt that science covers all of the human inquiry?
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I would say yes. If one think faith cannot be explained by science, it just needs more explanation. When a child is born, he is fed breast milk. Few months later, he is fed light liquids then light solids and after few months gradually he is trained to digest normal food. Science and faith plays the same role in our life. A child needs religion to keep doubts away. Rituals, prayers all carry constructive suggestions to every individual. As they grow older and inquisitive, they learn much more and that children are not produced by holy spirit and so on. A few start questioning faith and go astray, some become rationalists and another become non religious. Nobody has found the answer to identify god. So science seem to have failed? No. Somewhere we have gone off track.
I have defined life as ‘organized body processing information and energy’, and am still comfortable with it. We see that only plants and animals are living by normal understanding, but I find that the whole universe is alive with my definition, including the hungry black holes. I see life everywhere in the universe, and universe itself is a form of life. I will not call the universe as our god, but will call the character of energy that causes all the dynamics that keep the pulse of the universe dynamic as our god. God is not something that we could call super power, however his wish is always fulfilled. He cannot produce life magically, but subject the nature to produce life through the evolutionary process. Nature is the path followed by our god. I am comfortable with this understanding. I learnt all these from science and not faith. Most other inquiries have always a scientific answer.
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As a kind of inquiry, philosophy is aimed at establishing knowledge and understanding. So, rational inquiry may be interesting and fruitful even when we are denied straight-forward answers to our initial questions.