I hate his definition of faith. The term he's really looking for is curiosity. We wonder about our place in the universe.
And his baby analogy is idiotic as well. The baby is looking for its mother because of instinct. I know that he's trying to say that our existential curiosity is also instinctual (in which case he'll need more than an assertion to convince me), but even if it were, there's a huge difference between a baby looking for an absent parent because it's hungry/dirty/lonely in a physical sense than someone striving to gain understanding.
But, yeah. It's pretty clear he chose his definition so he can play the tired, "See? Even atheists go on faith!" idiocy.
And his baby analogy is idiotic as well. The baby is looking for its mother because of instinct. I know that he's trying to say that our existential curiosity is also instinctual (in which case he'll need more than an assertion to convince me), but even if it were, there's a huge difference between a baby looking for an absent parent because it's hungry/dirty/lonely in a physical sense than someone striving to gain understanding.
But, yeah. It's pretty clear he chose his definition so he can play the tired, "See? Even atheists go on faith!" idiocy.
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