(August 20, 2013 at 11:20 pm)ronedee Wrote: Whats your take on these very powerful words, and their effect on our lives? Gut, not textbook, please!
Faith is another word for trust, IMO. Like trust, it can be based on a reasonable premise or a flimsy one, which is why we use qualifiers like "blind faith" or "religious faith" to describe types of faith.
Hope is based on our desire for a particular outcome, which may or may not be reasonable. A person who purchases a lottery ticket does so with the hope that his ticket is a winner. If he understands the odds of such a game, he may not have faith in that outcome, but he hopes for it anyway.
Love is an emotion, which like many emotions (and many chemical substances) can move us to action. Think of any emotion in its extreme forms and how they affect us. Hate? Fear? And so on.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
