(March 3, 2016 at 8:34 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 2, 2016 at 4:54 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Postulating an uncaused anything is not very logical. It's a leap of faith.Merely taking the world as intelligible is a leap of faith. Believing that we can know anything is a leap of faith. There are no 'purely' rational positions.
There are leaps of faith which occur in the absence of rational support and those that occur with the presence of rational support. Just because there are no purely rational positions does not mean that we can't rank positions according to their reasonableness. Some leaps of faith are larger than others. The leap to belief in an entity unlike any that has been observed to occur in our everyday world is surely one of the largest.