I don't need to 'trust' evidence. I would, however, need to trust without it. Evidence is only unreliable when it turns out not to be evidence, so by definition it doesn't require "faith".
1=1 is true by definition. I do not need to have any confidence to believe it, unless I am deluded and I, therefore, engage in faith-based thinking, as opposed to evidence-based thinking. And I am so deluded as to think 1=1 requires confidence - it's fucking true by definition! Lol.
The God example doesn't work because there is no evidence for God, so of course you need evidence to believe in it.
To, for instance, believe in evolution however - you don't. If there were no evidence of evolution then you'd need faith in it to believe in it, because there would be no evidence. But seen as evolution has evidence, then it is not a faith-based belief, but an evidence-based one.
Indeed, it comes down to definitions. I understand faith to mean "belief without evidence", which means that if you have evidence then you don't have faith. And so believing in evidence of course has evidence, the evidence itself is evidence, evidence for anything is evidence of the existence of evidence itself.
...So evidence does not require faith because if it did it would not be evidence.
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1=1 is true by definition. I do not need to have any confidence to believe it, unless I am deluded and I, therefore, engage in faith-based thinking, as opposed to evidence-based thinking. And I am so deluded as to think 1=1 requires confidence - it's fucking true by definition! Lol.
The God example doesn't work because there is no evidence for God, so of course you need evidence to believe in it.
To, for instance, believe in evolution however - you don't. If there were no evidence of evolution then you'd need faith in it to believe in it, because there would be no evidence. But seen as evolution has evidence, then it is not a faith-based belief, but an evidence-based one.
Indeed, it comes down to definitions. I understand faith to mean "belief without evidence", which means that if you have evidence then you don't have faith. And so believing in evidence of course has evidence, the evidence itself is evidence, evidence for anything is evidence of the existence of evidence itself.
...So evidence does not require faith because if it did it would not be evidence.
EvF
