Strong Atheism starts from faith

[Autumnlicious]

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Mathematics is based on logic. Logical statements are qualified through whether a statement is true or false. A 1 or a 0 if you will. Mathematical proofs do not require anything except a logical progression than can be verified each step of the way in a contextual manner. Every step can be taken apart of examine the logic of that.

There is no faith there. If a statement made in math is proven contextually true, then it is true in that context. Unproven statements are unproven, and false statements are false. There are no exceptions. It is about as dry as you can get.

Your 'faith' in God is not justified, is unprovable. It cannot be broken down to a True/False decision with context, nor can be taken apart. It is merely an expression for what one wants to be true, generated without regard to the actual veracity. We have logic to deal with such expressions, so as to sift out what is unproven, false from that which is proven and therefore "True" with context.

If you noticed, the word 'context' is very, very important. No faith there - it is all reason, flowing from the well spring of logic, an evaluation of a pattern of statements under a context to determine whether it is correct or incorrect.

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Maybe then your faith is in logic itself. Or is logic proved also? I asked about this in another thread and nobody has yet showed me a proof for the laws of logic. Can you prove that logic is the appropriate standard for evaluating things?

Wow, I really like repeating myself today.

There is not an ounce of faith in logic. Logic is a framework. Items evaluated by logic require evidence. If faith was defined as belief without evidence, and it were, as a whole, to be evaluated by logic, then it would be classified as unproven due to lack of evidence.

Your calculator has no faith in the calculations done on it. It simply evaluates statements using the logical framework on which mathematics is built.

There is no faith involved. Can you understand that? Faith does not enter into logic as a framework. Evidence is a component that is used by the framework, reason is one thing logic is used to evaluate.

You cannot put faith in a logical process.