Its a conflict because they believe in loads of things because of evidence - but when it comes to God or anything supernatural or 'miraculous' that they believe in - then they "have faith".
Since when you require evidence to believe in God just as with anything else and it isn't given any special treatment: then there is no conflict.
Its almost like cherry picking. You require evidence for things apart for some things when you just illogically don't! And what criterion do you do that by exactly? Why doesn't God need evidence but everything else does? Its special treatment. No logical contradiction maybe but I think there's a conflict!
You only really say you believe something because you "have faith" when there's no evidence for those things. If there was evidence you wouldn't need faith. You wouldn't call it faith, its just evidence.
Its just a semantic thing there. If you want to say you can have rational faith then I'd ask where's the evidence. As far as I'm concerned if its not based on evidence, then its not faith. All faith is blind faith as far as I'm concerned - by how [I define it. For reasons said above.
E(rational)v(lacks evidence, irrational)F
Since when you require evidence to believe in God just as with anything else and it isn't given any special treatment: then there is no conflict.
Its almost like cherry picking. You require evidence for things apart for some things when you just illogically don't! And what criterion do you do that by exactly? Why doesn't God need evidence but everything else does? Its special treatment. No logical contradiction maybe but I think there's a conflict!
You only really say you believe something because you "have faith" when there's no evidence for those things. If there was evidence you wouldn't need faith. You wouldn't call it faith, its just evidence.
Its just a semantic thing there. If you want to say you can have rational faith then I'd ask where's the evidence. As far as I'm concerned if its not based on evidence, then its not faith. All faith is blind faith as far as I'm concerned - by how [I define it. For reasons said above.
E(rational)v(lacks evidence, irrational)F
