(September 29, 2009 at 3:23 pm)solarwave Wrote:(September 29, 2009 at 3:18 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: We believe the people we believe because of our experiences from the past. The veracity of their past claims allow us to model how true their current claims are likely to be. Ergo, we do not have "faith" in people we know; we are going off of past data to calculate the probability of their being right. We believe because of our knowledge not faith. This is much like your chair example in another thread.
Exactly so you believe because of reason not science?
Yes, I have reason to believe my friends because they have shown to be truthful in the past. Eillonnwy and I are not a team and atheism isn't some dogmatic aproach at life that "WE the ATHEISTS" hold near and dear. I never proffered up that I only believe things according to science. I was simply pointing our that your example was NOT a faith example. !faith is != to science.
Just so you can know me better, I believe I have a soul based on personal experience. This does not mean that I would ever accept anyone else's personal experience as evidence but I CAN understand believing in God based on personal experience.
Rhizo
PS !="not" I don't know how to express "not" any other way.
