Revelation and the Holy Spirit

I've spent some time the past couple of days thinking and blogging about reason and revelation. The conversations have given me an opportunity to both think about what I believe and to bear testimony. It has been enjoyable and helped me to focus on things of the gospel, which is better (for me) than politics or sports.

I ran discovered this article on the LDS Philosopher blog by Noel Reynolds. He was my Stake President when I attended the Y. I liked these two paragraphs, and how they relate to what I've been thinking about.

Another way of putting the problem of reason and revelation is to ask if revelation must give the same results as philosophical or scientific method to be valid. Because of the narrowness of these two as conceived by contemporary practitioners, the answer must be no. In the interest of time, allow me to point out only one of many reasons. Contemporary philosophy and science have accepted certain ground rules--such as the principle of naturalism--which restrict in advance the range of possible explanations that can be given for our observations. Specifically, no explanations are acceptable which refer to the reality of gods or other supernatural beings.

It may well be that such a principle has been necessary for secular science to make any headway when its practitioners represent so many different beliefs about the existence of gods. But it is also clearly true that to the extent that the supernatural world does exist and does interact causally with the world of our ordinary experience, science has arbitrarily erected a barrier against its own free explorations of that essential feature of reality--and has condemned itself permanently to a partial understanding of the truth.

http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6805