Faith in the Unseen

In recent years the debate over science reason and religion has reached a peak (or a high plateau depending on your perception of time scales) of intensity breadth and confrontational vigor. Hundreds of Web sites blogs and forums have sprung up enabling the debate to rage day-to-day. But people will always want points of view to be encapsulated in portable form: books. <p> Faith in the Unseen is a contribution to the debate. Its author Dr. Rashid Seyal who is a consultant cardiologist with numerous books on cardiology and religion under his belt approaches the debate on the faith side as a religious man (he is a Muslim) with a strong background in science. The title of his book places the emphasis on the key issue that stands between the scientific atheist side and the faith side: evidence and the absence thereof. For fundamentalist believers evidence (other than what is written in holy books) is simply not an issue. However for the rational religious believer it is a pivotal point and must be rationalized. <p> It is divided into substantial chapters each dealing with a major subject of faith and/or reason and each chapter is subdivided into sections which discuss various detailed aspects or examples including death the afterlife and the philosophy of life.