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… Philosophy Rebuts Key Barrier Between Science and Religion | RealClearScience.

If Descartes was apparently premodern in his blending of theological and scientific reasoning, he was quintessentially modern in another sense. Indeed, the method for which Descartes is perhaps most famous is not deductive, but skeptical — the two are interconnected. For Descartes, the paragon of rationality is to question everything — including the testimony of the senses and that of tradition — leaving only those principles which are so clear and distinct as to be beyond all doubt, thereby serving as the foundation of knowledge. Rational inquiry thus always starts afresh, doubting everything in order to discover self-evident truths from which all other may be deduced.