has attempted to provide good reasons for a naturalistic, evidence-based pursuit of knowledge that matters. Faith-based approaches to the meaning of life are limited because they provide no grounds for choosing among the large array of religious faiths available. George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden have their different faiths, but no basis of arguing that one is any better than the other.
Faith has been used to support many beliefs that we have good grounds to deem false, such as placing the earth at the center of the universe. Faith has also been used to support many practices, such as religious wars and torture that from a broader perspective are more in tune with evil than with good. Faith provides no way of resisting natural error tendencies in human thinking, including confirmation bias and motivated inference.