Dazed and Confused: David Marshall's Irrational Take on Faith and Reason

Introduction

The word faith has always been a word in popular culture that has been defined as a “belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence,” the complete opposite of reason. In Richard Dawkins' classic book, The Selfish Gene, he writes, “[Faith is] blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence.” [1] David Marshall disagrees with this and insists