(December 3, 2009 at 7:27 pm)Saerules Wrote: Its really simple... when someone says something like 'I like blue'... a person might ask 'why?' of that. You can continue these 'why?'s until their final logical conclusion that a person just needs to accept all things on faithYou make it seem like a straight line from opinion to faith down under. IMO it is more like the roots of a tree, one conviction has many roots which has many roots and so on. Besides the line of reasoning from top to bottom there is need for coherence and consistency among the many branches. Reasoning is like maximizing consistency among all the branches of a certain conviction you hold with yourself and with arguments presented by others. Yes, in the end (at the tip of the roots) all convictions are based on assertions (as Kant says: the thing in itself cannot be known), but there is a difference between blind faith and reasoned opinion. You cannot accept genesis and empirical results from cosmology at the same time. The proof is in the pudding and the eating is in reasoning.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0