(April 24, 2017 at 1:12 pm)Valyza1 Wrote: Do theists really need to be able to articulate *why* they believe in God in order to be justified in believing? People kept breathing long before they were able to figure out why it's necessary. But even if we never figured it out, we'd still be justified in actually breathing. Likewise, it may be that some religious people never are able to assert the question of why they believe. Still doesn't mean they aren't justified in doing so.
Not in any human rights or legal context no. Their right to believe in that context is not in danger. But if one really wants to know if they are on the right track, that is a very important question to know if it is more than your own personal bias. When something is really beyond your own personal bias, it can be tested and falsified and then that data and method can be handed over to others and they will be able to come to the same conclusions you did.
If you are not willing to ask yourself why you feel the need to cling to a position, then you unwittingly or deliberately corner yourself into a box and that will not ever become a fact universally accepted.
Yes we knew breathing was a requirement long before scientific method found out the scientific biological explanation as to why. As a result of now knowing why, we have lung doctors and even environmental regulations that require the air we breath to be clean. Or, I should say, regulations that should be used and put first before profit.
Not everyone has to be a PHD scientist no, but the more humans have the basics the better they can view the world. I cant do a fraction to save my life. But I accept science because I use it every day. Much like I understand how to drive a car but can't build one from scratch. I also know the basic concept of how a combustion engine works, and still cant build a car from scratch.
I cant write computer code in machine language, but I do know what a bite is. I do know and accept that all machine language are based on 0s and 1s and positive and negative charges.
