"Faith is the rational belief in the irrational; reason is the irrational belief in the rational. We must use both in our occupation as justified fools. We must be like scientists, melding the two in hopes of taking another step forward to an unknown and nebulous end. With an atomic faith, Einstein understood the relativity of his theories, and we are called to be such geniuses. We are caught in a kind of kaleidoscopic schizophrenia with only the absurdist hope in isometric exercise of reason to cling to. But we cannot yet know, for there is the holy trinity of knowledge yet unattained: belief, justification and truth. So we use the holy ghost of reason and the sacred imperfection of our humanity to bridge the body to the third, that asinine ambition to taste the fruit of the tree and know those divine things. We acquiesce in Humean and Quinean acknowledgement of the notion that the future is out of the realm of the real for a man, with even the present under interpreted predictions where red is red and a triangle has three sides. Faith is fragile because that belief can never be proven, so its validity is always in question whereas reason may often arrive at the correct conclusion with the process remaining controversial and contingent. We must be actors, pawns of the world of progress, telling stories not for fact but for the hope that we might graze perfection by pointing to truth, to a reality from fabrication. We all must be comfortable with our vulnerable roles as the fools among the animals, balancing this predicament of knowing and mysterium. We must control our reasonable impulses to call all ravens black and all swans white. We must use the two to question without hopes of accurate answers and without the desire, lest we harvest the fields east of Eden. Faith is that flutter before flight when reason says it will only be met with free fall; but we jump in space and float at thousands of miles per hour. We must agree in paradox, to turn the coin over and see the mirror on the other side."