One of the core characteristics of humans is our need to assign meaning to our environment; we do this primarily through the use of symbolism. Language is a shared set of random symbols, which we use to understand our environment, our relationships with others and our need for a relationship with something greater than ourselves.
It is interesting for me to think about this need; I choose to believe in God based on tradition and experience in prayer, but many choose to place their faith in science or humanism or both. I think scientists, philosophers, and people of faith have a core need in common and in order to reach it, we all have to travel past the limits of reason into faith. Being born on this side of the Enlightenment has provided us with the advantage of witnessing the stretching of reason - the more we can explain about our world the more I believe it enhances faith.
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