Greetings,
I feel that we have established firmly that reason is to be used in the service of God. It is from proper faith that true logical and coherant structure come. When we use reason and the intelect outside of the Christian faith, then we do so improperly. What good is it to study science if the God of the Bible is not in the process? Firstly, there is no reason to study science without God. If you believe in the view of random creation via evolution, then why should there be any order in the universe. There should be no such thing as logic, chance would be the only constant. The galaxy, let alone the universe, should be nothing more than jumbled atoms and particles scattered over vaste amounts of space. Yet this is not true by any means. The entire universe, as much of it as we have observed, works in a logical and coherant manner. What if you believed in the pagan dieties of Rome and Greece? Their "Gods" are no more than glorified men. They are humanity that has been given superhuman attributes. For example, the gods are constantly having affairs with human women, and are by all means finite. We have an example of this in the statue of the "hero" (heros of Greek mythology are considered amoung the gods) Hercules urinating while being inebriated. How could such flippant passable gods create and maintain order in society? they can't. The impersonaly dieties of the Eastern Mysiticism and Chinease cultures give us no hope either. When we use reason, appart from the Word of God, we end up wiht the horrible attrocities that we have today:Nihilism, Post-Modernism, and hedonism. We need the Bible in order to function, without it we shall perish.
Sola Scriptura,
Reformer