RE: Theists, what does faith mean to you?
August 7, 2015 at 9:02 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2015 at 9:09 pm by Pyrrho.)
(August 7, 2015 at 8:29 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 8:23 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: She may trust them both and mean by that "faith," but her belief that each of them exists is entirely different from each other. For the one, there is evidence, but not for the other. She is playing a game with the word "faith," pretending that a case with good evidence is the same as a case without evidence.
With all respect, but who are you to say what can and cannot be evidence for me?
No one can just make up bullshit and say that it is evidence for themselves and expect anyone to take them seriously.
If I were to say that my dining room table is evidence for me that the world is a giant tortoise, everyone of sense would be able to say that that is total bullshit nonsense.
Calling some random thing "evidence" does not make it evidence.
Edited to add:
Quote:evidence
1The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all
Notice, it is not for one specific person. The nature of evidence is the same for everyone. That does not mean that everyone has all of the same evidence; it means that what evidence is, is the same for everyone.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.