What is Your Definition of Reasonable Faith?

[The Grand Nudger]

Thanks for your reply, Rhythm.  I personally do not have any requisite evidence for the existence of a deity, because IMO, humanity has not even really properly defined the term: IMO, it is like being told to simplify a mathematical problem without a complete understanding of what the domain is, and if we don't know what the domain is, then how do we know that the range will produce valid outputs for all possible inputs?

OFC we have.  The definition being consistently wrong doesn't mean that the term hasn't been continuously defined and re-defined. Theres no one on earth who hears a person use the word god in any language and thinks to themselves "well, wtf is that, total noncognitive, no idea what you're talking about".

Hence, I don't see a difference between a search for deities and a seti search for alien lifeforms: call them deities if that's what one's heart wants, but IMO,  it could just as easily be called something else and perhaps something more accurate if we interpret it with reason rather than wishful thinking.

I can help with that.  SETI concerns life that may exist out there, in the universe, and equipment capable of..at least potentially, detecting such life in a demonstrable fashion.  While the search for some god is neither a search for life, or for anything "out there" in the universe, nor does it require or entail equipment that could then be pointed to as a certifier or demonstration of it's results.

You can easily call something anything you like. You can't easily make whatever you've called that thing accurate. This ground leveling shit between SETI and faith is pure idiocy. That won;t even be lost on a believer, who would gleefully tell you that the search for a god is not the search for some alien. Whether or not -they- could tell a difference between the two is amusing, but non-informative as to a -god- or SETI. Should SETI pick up what they;re looking for, from the other end...the last thing they'll tell you is "hey, we just found Zues!" Both believers -and- SETI know better.....even if you, personally, don't or couldn't tell the difference.

Now, I'm almost certain that you employed some variation of the texas sharpshooter in concluding the above, but you can honestly spare me the details of sloppy thinking. I'm already well acquainted with such in the context of gods.