As Cline points out, Buffet resembles Bill Gates who when asked about Christianity said that he is not a believer and does not attend church regularly, but finds the moral teachers of Christianity useful and inspiring (Cline 2006). Is this so bad? Both of them can teach most people about the need to work, save money and then give back to the society that nurtured them.
This seeming dispute between faith and reason is hardly new and is an illusion that is easily dispelled. After all, Christianity did not come out of a box with Luther's theses in 1517. The seeds had already been planted in the High Middle Ages/Early Renaissance as learning revived in the wake of the Crusades. This cultural awakening of the High Middle Ages raised issues that scholars such as the great Thomas Aquinas wrestled with in his classical Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica....
He held that there were two types of truth. First, reason could demonstrate God exists. On a higher level, some things must be accepted on faith alone (Patterson 2001 93).
While the argument from nature is useful, it has a hole in it. Doubters posit an earth and a universe that is trillions of years old. Chance occurrences, such as evolution in trillions of years can overcome statistical hurdles without a divine hand. Cosgrove's argument against atheistic naturalism's circular reasoning has no effect when these long ages are brought to bear (Cosgrove 2006 87). Unfortunately, this also defeats Strobel's and Vogel's arguments to reconcile the Christian faith with the arguments against Christianity with regard to evolution (Strobel and Vogel 2002 41). These approaches therefore required a simpler and more ancient approach.
While all belief systems posit
