Ryft Wrote:There are various types and degrees of belief (e.g., dispositional belief, Audi 1994:419-434), but it is simply erroneous to equate belief and faith, as our example above did by suggesting that Christians have beliefs but scientists do not. What is a conclusion if not a mental state of intellectual assent, or some propositional attitude about a fact or proposition represented? Scientists most certainly do have beliefs—countless beliefs, from occurrent to dispositional, from reasoned to axiomatic—without which they could not even function, much less engage in scientific enterprise.
I do equate the two terms, but I apply them to all parties when I do so: the scientist and his faith in the world having a rational explanation. Unless one necessitates that the object to which one has faith in be God, I really don't see how belief and faith are any different. :S
HeyItsZeus Wrote:That's OK. Your thought process is still inferior to mine.
Ryft's thought process is inferior to you? What are you, a quantum computer from the year 26 SD?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
