Valyza1 Wrote:Alasdair Ham Wrote:Dude... you don't seem to understand what a belief is. It doesn't matter how useful having a particular belief might be... beliefs are a state of certainty towards something considered the truth not a state of certainty towards something considered useful.
So if I'm constantly acting as if proposition X is true, and I know it could never actually be shown to be true or false, that would be different than believing it?
No, it would not be different from believing it. You can believe something is true, even if you know that you can't demonstrate it to the satisfaction of skeptics. Thinking that something is actually the case, is actually true, is what belief means.
It's not about whether you can show it to be true. It's about whether you believe it's true. Not useful, true.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
