(July 7, 2012 at 10:24 pm)padraic Wrote: Of course they don't. What they need is proof.
It's OK, I understand you are referring to the faithful. IE people who are unable to distinguish between personal certitude based on superstition and evidence based knowledge.
I'm gonna go Socratic on you.
Why do they need proof?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”