Faith vs Logic

The conversation started from deep within a bean bag chair “Can logic reach a final answer or is it forever changing.” Long hair and bushy beard, sitting in the lounge position. He’s your typical vegan philosopher with a major in political science. “Our perspective and understanding keep changing, most people assume theres an end. What if logic is as infinite as the universe we live in.” He was as interesting as his job, a sociology consultant for law firms with a six figure salary. More than anything else though he spends his time proving that though intellectually many may consider themselves agnostic or atheist. He has yet to meet someone who wasn’t emotionally a believer.

“To find meaning in life, logic isn’t enough. Finding direction requires an anchor of absolute truth, I just don’t think logic can get you there.” He explained if logic is forever changing which constantly makes yesterday obsolete. Then a life compass based on logic is useless. He continued “A life based on logic is really just a life based on circumstance. Of course theres nothing wrong with that, just if your looking for meaning that has continuity or impartial morality it can’t be that.”

His conclusion is, being that we are finite we can’t verify an absolute in an infinite world. We would need to choose an absolute based on faith and then use it as a touch point to verify anything else. Another observation he made, you can only have one touch point based on faith. Otherwise you’re choosing which to go with, making you the touch point.

For someone so anti logic, he is someone who never left it. The question continues, can logic be used as a compass in life or is it more of a tool.