(May 23, 2009 at 5:04 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Ok, here's a very BASIC way to put it: Faith is belief without evidence - and that's irrational. So the term 'rational faith' is an oxymoron.
Totally agree!
But some say that faith is nothing that can be proven that it should be seen in the same way you see a painting. That it can be interputated in many ways.
That statement is pretty much a way to try to hang on to a belief, to make up excuses and reasons for it's existence. When some religious people reason like that, is their religion dying. They may think that reinvent relgions will make it survive but instead does it causes people to think more which leads to atheism and such. Which is a good thing!
- Science is not trying to create an answer like religion, it tries to find an answer.
