(May 5, 2015 at 3:12 pm)emjay Wrote: Good point, as always. I think that's roughly what CS Lewis said in the book Miracles.
But it doesn't change the fact that I'm just wired to doubt anything I don't see with my own eyes. I really can't help that.
Of course you doubt. Jesus said a person with faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains, but I don't see any mountains moving. Apparently, even the most devout Christians doubt. Those who claim unshakable faith annoy me, and they're frequently in store for a comeuppance.
As far as I can tell, you're not unique, or even unusual. It would be interesting to find that a certain type of person was hard-wired so that they can't believe, but I've never seen it. If perhaps a certain Myers-Briggs or Predictive Index personality type couldn't believe, you'd have a point. But among any such classification, there are both believers and unbelievers.
At the first atheist site I posted at, a long-time atheist converted. He put it more in terms of commitment to belief, than intellectual assent.
