(January 3, 2014 at 7:12 pm)RDK Wrote: I,ve been reading this whole experience that AgapeLove has had. It is almost identical to those that I have had. I would submit that all of you have faith in something too! You believe what you will about scientific principles that seem to reflect your understanding of a subject. Do you test out every principle by which you believe? Can you? Are you able to repeat every test and every principle so you can prove that your faith is justified? Do you believe everything that these educated people say just because they are intelligent? I am asking a lot of questions since you do not seem to have understood the impotance of another reality with proofs all of their own.
Except that's not faith: it's a reasonable expectation that the people trained to discover certain things know what they're talking about. Do you have faith in a plumber when you call one to fix your sink, or do you just accept that sometimes you require help from outside sources? Additionally, when a scientist says something, they don't just assert it, they also present their workings, experimental data and often repeatable steps for how the experiment that led them to their conclusions are done. One could find out for themselves with relative ease, so don't even pretend that science and religion are remotely similar.
What you're doing is a little bait and switch, where you're using faith to mean "accepting something you don't know for certain," which is dishonest because nobody ever knows anything for certain; some of us are just brash enough to pretend like they do.
Incidentally, you didn't come close to answering the question I actually posed to you about prayer, either.

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