[donh]

In math, yeah, but I thought we were trying to apply it to reason and faith.

I would argue that a good analogy holds between the use of the word in math, and in ordinary discourse. If two phenomena related to a given field of discourse have effects that can reasonably taken to be independent of each other, than it's reasonable to call them othogonal, even if they haven't an exact metric you can use measuring instruments on. As in, for instance, the claim of a mother that her love for her child does not diminish her love for her husband. Orthogonal love--I've got pictures from the Kama Sutra.

[stuartcr]

Geez, did you or tortoise read any of this thread, or do you guys just like to lecture into cyberspace? Someone said reason and faith are orthogonally compatible, I questioned what that was, and you two start into rocket science. If you guys want to read stuff you say, just do it in notepad, read it over and over, but don't send it to me. Neither one of you said anything understandable about the relationship between reason and faith. At least you're not rude like the other guy.