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Usually sagacious, Steven Pinker writes like a philistine about faith and reason (“Less Faith, More Reason,” op-ed, Oct. 27). What is faith? Ill-founded belief, he writes, anathema to the university. What is reason? “Pure and simple...
...fact that the university, as Pinker writes, is “about reason, pure and simple” makes it the ideal place to discuss something as fundamentally unreasonable as faith without the baggage of intolerance and hysteria that its discussion occasions elsewhere...
...liberate chlorine from salt. Today a villager in Africa carries pots 12 hours a day to and from river streams to bring often contaminated water to her family. But she does not have access to chlorine. So how can we enable ways to give that village access to pure water...
...make money with affordable technologies. We're making membrane systems that remove arsenic from river water. It's a new product, but I'm not just selling a membrane system--I'm making pure water. That means you don't have to walk 12 miles for water. You can get educated. Your children don't get sick. I want the whole corporation to be driven this way. It's embedded in our value proposition going forward...
...fuzzy code words. Second, the juxtaposition of the two words makes it sound like “faith” and “reason” are parallel and equivalent ways of knowing, and we have to help students navigate between them. But universities are about reason, pure and simple. Faith—believing something without good reasons to do so—has no place in anything but a religious institution, and our society has no shortage of these. Imagine if we had a requirement for “Astronomy and Astrology?...