(December 19, 2012 at 10:35 pm)clemdog14 Wrote: Seems like you are presupposing a lot of "givens" based on my responses.
What 'givens' in particular am I presupposing?
Quote: I admire reason, I respect it, but sometimes it falters on many levels.
How exactly does it falter?
Is one of the times it falters when it disagrees with your faith based beliefs?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.