(October 30, 2008 at 10:08 am)CoxRox Wrote: Faith, like anything else can be misapplied or misunderstood but faith per se is perhaps a necessary part of understanding (or not understanding) the fuller picture.
Sorry I did not catch your first name,
Well although I am glad you agree with my post, I am sorry to say I do not agree with yours. Faith will by its nature push you in a certain mindset and will frame evidence in a subjective way. Now it is very hard to examine evidence pro or contra a god or gods when your mindset is already that you believe one exists. Particularly if you believe that it is your version of god being examined.
The trouble is in the fact that the human brain is very eager to connect cause and correlation, so we are by our very own nature predestined to believe things without evidence.
What I do is try to look at evidence and see if there are natural causes to explain claims, as opposed to assume the causes are supernatural. And usually no matter how far fetched the natural solution may seem, it is still a million times simpeler than getting a supernatural deity in the equation because then you need to explain the supernatural deity.
What I will not do is presuppose that when I don't understand it and no one has a reasonable or naturalistic explanation that "god did it". Because all that does is make the equation more complex and explain nothing. I don't know to me is a much more valid answer, at least the most honest one.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
