Most highly educated athiests are actually very poorly educated in the social sciences and humanities, especially philosophy, which provides the basic tools for analyzing reality from a human perspective.
Remarkably (not so remarkably really) some of the greatest philosophers have also been Christians, even recently (e.g. Gadamer).
Modern philosophy has many disciplines which can be directly applied to the debate beween science and faith. In particular, Epistemology (theory of knowledge) and Phenomenology (study of phenomena as they are humanly perceived) are vital to this debate into the nature of "truth".
A person with no faith has a fundamental problem in relation to creation. He cannot see things from a spiritual perspective and so one side of reality shielded from his sight. He can use logic however and that opens the possibility of correcting many errors that many athiests and agnostics make in criticising Christianity.
Athiest author anjd anti-religionist Richard Dawkins is a brilliant scientists but displayed remarkable ignorance of these philosophical disciplines in his TV series.
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