(April 16, 2014 at 10:52 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: You are right, science is not based on faith but on facts. Christianity is based on faith. That is why it is a bit silly to keep insisting that Christian provides facts in order for you to believe.
Then stop making claims you cannot substantiate. Here, I'll illustrate the problem for you:
Me: I have a magic coin in my pocket, from Atlantis, that grants wishes.
You: Really? That's so cool! Can you substantiate that?
Me: Waaaaah! Why are you demanding proof? Can't you just take it on faith? Stop persecuting me!
See, in order to back up my claims, I would first have to show that I actually have a coin; that it is from Atlantis; and that it grants wishes. I have the burden of proving all this, and it ought to be trivial to do so.
The key difference between science and faith is that, as you acknowledge, science has the facts to back it up and can be verified independently by anyone regardless of belief. What you have, which you admit, is faith based on nothing. What was that bit about a house built on sand..?
(April 16, 2014 at 10:52 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: You do not have faith there is a God, I do. I believe what science has to say except for the things it just can't prove.
Really? I was sure someone said that science is based on facts...
Regardless, even if there are things science can't prove - an asinine claim in itself requiring the e-word to which you seem to be allergic - wouldn't it take faith to believe them? Faith, I might add, with infinitely more justification than that blind version you've earmarked for your pet god. I thought you were all about this faith stuff?
(April 16, 2014 at 10:52 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Like I said before, science can not answer every question.
Then it's got a far better track record than faith, which cannot answer any question whatsoever - at least honestly.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
