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RE: Adrian and I disagree on faith.
February 5, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Reading back I can kind of see where you are coming from, but as far as I can tell, and correct me if I am wrong, you seem to have the notion that faith is an exclusively unreasonable belief. That I think is where our main difference lies.
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RE: Adrian and I disagree on faith.
February 5, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Because some are more reason-based than faith based. If you are content on using a scale, then you cannot deny that belief in God is more faith based than belief that the sun will come up tomorrow. The latter is more based on reason.
You still haven't given me an example of a belief that isn't based on faith though, which supports my contention that your version of "faith" is synonymous with "belief" and is therefore useless.
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RE: Adrian and I disagree on faith.
February 5, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Likewise, I see where you are coming from, I just see more sense in having "faith" separate from "belief", in that "faith" is a special case of belief, rather than every belief being called a faith as it would be from your position.
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RE: Adrian and I disagree on faith.
February 5, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Regardless of if it can be known for certain that the sun will come out tomorrow or not (I believe that it cannot), if you consider it to be more likely due to reasons - if you consider it to be indicated - then from all dictionaries I've read that is by definiton evidence. And "circumstantial evidence at best" as you've said Leo, is still evidence.
And how I understand the definition of faith is it is belief that lacks evidence. I don't think my belief lacks evidence that the sun will come off tomorrow at all, far from it. It is certainly more likely than not in my view. The fact that so far every day in my life it has - and it has been recorded throughout history and prehistory as having done so of course -, etc, I see to be very strong evidence indeed. So yes I think that these 'reasons' that give a very strong indication of the sun coming up is therefore evidence.
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RE: Adrian and I disagree on faith.
February 5, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Not to sound pedantic but the Sun doesn't come up.
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RE: Adrian and I disagree on faith.
February 6, 2010 at 1:30 am
(February 5, 2010 at 5:20 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Because some are more reason-based than faith based. If you are content on using a scale, then you cannot deny that belief in God is more faith based than belief that the sun will come up tomorrow. The latter is more based on reason.
no that difference is more based in tangible and testable reality not reason
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RE: Adrian and I disagree on faith.
February 6, 2010 at 9:19 am
Isn't the difference between faith and belief in the common sense that faith accepts basic assumptions as unshakable truth while common belief only accepts the assumptions as yet unproven hypotheses?
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