(September 13, 2017 at 8:06 am)SteveII Wrote: It's a false dichotomy. It is not one or the other. Nothing incoherent about both being true.
If you are wanting to investigate, describe and explain something about reality that you don't already know and then make use of what you discover, then only an evidence based approach works. A faith based approach does not work. So no, they can't both be true. This is because there are an infinite ideas that you can have faith in with no ability to discern which is the correct one unless you use evidence.
You can argue that you can have some evidence and some faith but the faith does not achieve anything other than to make you feel like you are more correct. Unless you have the evidence you can't know that.