The essence of science is Reason. Science can be defined as the relationship between cause and effect. “It is also the supreme passion of the Reason to seek a collision, though this collision must in one way or another prove its undoing” (Kierkegaard 291). Reason seeks to understand everything objectively, through thought and logic. Science uses a method to prove something. It comes up with a hypothesis, which needs to be verified empirically and experimented, before a conclusion can be reached. According to Soren Kierkegaard, Reason has a limit, and that limit is God. He says that the existence of God cannot be proved with the help of any sort of method or system, as is used in science. One has to have faith in God without knowing that He exists.
What then is God? “It is the Unknown. It is not a human being, in so far as we know what man is; nor is it any other known thing” (Kierkegaard 291). God, according to Kierkegaard is the ultimate unknown. He cannot be objectified.......

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Title: Science Vs Faith
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