(January 17, 2015 at 2:49 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:(January 16, 2015 at 10:10 pm)professor Wrote: You have faith in your car.
If that faith was in spite of evidence- you would would be looking for a reliable one to replace it.
Every time I see this gambit from a believer, I have to wonder why they are so fucking ashamed of their faith that they must try to portray it as something it is not.
I'm reasonably certain my truck will start, but I've had enough experience to know that it might not, and so while I expect it to start, I know what to do if it doesn't. If my truck doesn't run reliably, I don't have a reasonable expectation of it starting. None of that is remotely similar to the blind faith placed by believers in deities. My truck runs, and I can explain exactly why it runs if you wish. Faith need not apply; we are in the realm of knowledge here.
Faith in god has a different connotation than faith in people, anyway, or faith in the system of justice. Equivocation isn't going to get you nearer the truth.
One of my fav fallacies, that one. "you have faith in science"..or..."you have faith in love"..You can't compare something for which we have abundant evidence (love, the actions of a real person, knowledge that a mechanical vehicle works) to a faith claim, which by definition is that for which lacks evidence. Nice try though. The idea my wife probably loves me is not a radical hypothesis. The idea that a being created the universe is an extraordinary claim. Equating an extraordinary claim with a mundane one, and then suggesting they both "require faith" is disanalogous.
You, not a mythical god, are the author of your book of life, make it one worth reading..and living.
