Do we expect too much from human reason?

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Reason is the only means we have to understand our universe, which is for all practical purposes "all of reality".

The fact that reason is the only means we have does not prove it is qualified for a particular task.

Your inability to provide an example of something impervious to reason nor a demonstration of an alternate means of understanding is telling.

1) Can we fall in love using reason?

2) Your second point about understanding reveals something important.

Both theists and atheists assume the point of this inquiry should be to understand, to establish a "knowing".

What the evidence actually shows that after thousands of years of earnest effort by some of the best human minds on both sides of the debate, nobody has generated a credible knowing on this subject. Thousands of years. Best minds. No credible knowing.

And so we are now in the position of doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, which Einstein called the definition of insanity.

My argument is that we're unlikely to move this inquiry forward while we keep stubbornly doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.