as infants. In this way, parents’ faith- based moral values also can favorably affect their children’s levels of stress, depression and drug use later on.
Is there a tension between the yearning for scientifi c certainty and the intuitive nature of faith?
I feel that tension constantly as a scientist and a believer. I’m always challenging myself; you have to be objective as a scientist, to observe without reading into things. But the wisdom of the scriptures has endured through thousands of years, applied by believers through the ages in many different groups and cultures. About 80 percent of Americans today believe in God, nearly 90 percent in a higher power, and 84 percent of the world’s people have religious faith. Such faith must serve some kind of function for it to have persisted throughout the millennia. There is much that is still unknown, and may not be knowable from a scientifi c perspective. You need to use common sense and intuition. It requires a leap of faith, but once you do it, everything falls into line—though I admit as a scientist I keep trying to understand things from a rational perspective.
What are the pathways by which spirituality
contributes to health? Science supports fi rsthand experience; that the virtues instilled by a religious path ultimately lead to better decision making, relationships and greater well- being. They help to neutralize negative emotions. These benefi ts accrue through adulthood and yield fruit into old age. The coping mechanism that spiritual practices provide is also important. It helps us to tolerate and navigate diffi cult situations and integrate meaning and purpose into daily life. I don’t think science can prove to us that faith leads to divine healing. But through natural mechanisms alone, ones that we can understand and study, tremendous evidence exists to show that it benefi ts health and maybe even longevity.
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