Do we expect too much from human reason?

[Thumpalumpacus]

They believe reason is qualified to address the topic.

And it is, for the reasons mentioned above in my first reply to you, which you did not address at all.

If a cause leaves an effect in reality, that cause is more likely to be winnowed out by systematic investigation using peer review and evidentiary standards than it is, for instance, by saying "because I said so".

Simply because you assert that reason is a matter of faith amongst atheists does not make it so. As has already been pointed out to you, reason works.

You don't need to take my word for it. Look at the monitor you're reading these words on right now. That monitor was designed using principles of the universe we call quantum mechanics in order to allow you to read, quite literally, my mind at this very moment when you see these words. Miracles need not apply; appeals to faith need not apply; all you have to do is turn your computer on and you have evidence of reason's efficacy.

That is why trusting reason to investigate reality is more likely to give more accurate returns than appealing to gods -- we have the evidence, directly in front of our eyes in this very discussion, that reason works. That is distinctly not faith. Asserting otherwise ignores the brute fact of the technology you rely upon daily to go about your life.