He spent the whole book trying to convince his readers that faith is big enough for IQ and SQ and yet somehow, he fails to use both when it comes to transpeople.

Not only do many of today’s young people equate opinion with fact, but they also believe that opinions and feelings are more important than facts and that faith is like an ugly four-letter word. What beliefs underlie my perspective and how have these beliefs influenced what I observed and which data I chose? Throughout Believing Is Seeing, Morris asserts that his interest is in the complicated terrain between photography and epistemology—that is, the relationship between photography and knowledge.

Guillen makes a distinction between IQ and SQ (the spiritual equivalent of IQ on faith related topics). Also, if one area in a scientific field is still in development, that doesn’t suggest that all areas are also tenuous and not really understood. Thus thirty pages on from the questions cited above, in the chapter on the staging of FSA documentary photography, Morris again is left querying: “These photographs function on so many different levels and mean so many different things to different people.

Even Christians can fool themselves into thinking that they ‘get’ Jesus, but there is so much more to discover. Morris’s mistaken claim about Sontag would be little more than a fact-checker’s quibble, except that it illuminates a central fault line in his work.But I have to commend the author for making precise principles easy to understand through simple explanations. Guillen argues that everyone has a worldview, whether or not they spend a lot of time cultivating it. They attest to the degree to which Morris’s book rehearses and arrives at conclusions about photography that have already been posited, challenged, and rethought by scholars in more insightful ways.

Dr Guillen (G) tries to drive this basic point home by using various examples from science and religion: All truth does not need 'proof' to warrant its truthfulness. Whatever else he is doing, Morris is working out his own relationship to the documentary project, including to its other practitioners and critics. New technologies that encourage co-operation in some spheres of life contribute to social capital rather than weaken it. But it is to demand that books on photography, even those written for a broad audience as Morris’s may be, acknowledge and engage with contemporary photographic discourse in some way. Evidence can be observed and/or experienced and/or felt, while proof is just a mathematical endeavor relying on logic - and logic itself has many unproven beliefs as premises, not to mention that logic simply can't handle translogical truths (by definition).The book is very self-righteous what with its images focusing on Christ being the center of the world, it’s praise coming from people of faith and not solely trustworthy people from his background in academics, its all very telling before you even get into the meat of the book. I wanted to experiment with lighting the cannonballs from various directions, replicating the directions of the sun and time of day. Here is a list of questions that can be used in taking individuals or groups through their own process of reasoning and reaching proposals for action.

Love his explanations on why science requires faith and how if you are looking for certainty you will have to look elsewhere. Mostly, though, Morris is plainspoken, and that style serves him well: he is matter-of-fact about matters of fact. This increased understanding of multiple perspectives can help us to form a more systemic understanding of the issue, which in turn might offer an opportunity to discover common ground (shared needs, values and beliefs) which can help us to move forward on the issues in a more inclusive and participatory way. That, of course, doesn't really take away from the book as I found both valuable, the latter perhaps even more so as it helped me figure out where I stand on some issues.I was reminded that Atheism is a worldview in itself that takes leaps of faith- how can we know for certain there is no God? For so long, people have argued that seeing leads to believing, but in using more scientific evidence than I could fully comprehend in an audiobook, Guillen argues that what we believe (our worldview) greatly affects how we see the world. The biggest is that, despite his emphasis on spiritual insight (as distinct from intelligence and reason), Dr. Guillen ultimately concluded that not only does science itself depend on faith, but faith is actually the mightiest power in the universe. The implication is that if he were to discover facts that seemed to conflict with his theism, he would jettison his theism rather than question the facts.