RE: A Believer's Thoughts on Faith
June 29, 2022 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2022 at 2:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 29, 2022 at 1:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It kinda stretches the accepted standards of ‘evidence’ all out of shape, doesn’t it?Ish and/or Not Really? Evidence is simply what is evident. A person who thinks that Moloch helped them find their keys is absolutely mounting an argument from evidence - I just think it's a poor argument from poor evidence.
Quote:If a religious experience isn’t replicable, it isn’t evidence. If Jesus comes to me in a dream, how is that any more evidentiary than if Zlorg, the Slug Empress of Altair VI does the same thing? One common definition of evidence is that it is the available body of facts that are useful in determining whether or not a particular proposition is true (or at least valid). I don’t see how a spiritual or religious experience, unique to one individual, can be viewed as a fact - or even as information - to support the proposition ‘God exists’.
The most the can be said for such an experience is that it supports the claim, ‘I believe that God exists.’
Boru
Evidence doesn't have to be replicable, it is (again) simply that which is evident. We can upend this entire debate about evidence and what is evident and how that interfaces with faith by suggesting that people can (and have) conceived of faiths wholly comprised of what is evident that neither you nor I would object to -as- evident. Neither of us belongs to those religions, so it hardly matters..practically..but it is a thing that can be done.
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