RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 28, 2014 at 1:53 am
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2014 at 2:28 am by Harris.)
(July 26, 2014 at 3:06 pm)Tobie Wrote: Faith, in religious context, is defined as a strong belief in the tenets of a religion based on spiritual conviction rather than evidence. Atheists haven't redefined it as that, that is what the word has always meant.
No, New Atheism redefines FAITH as a property of religion only. Whereas our minds depend on FAITH of almost anything that we think can provide comfort to us in any sense. Science depends on faith, without FAITH, our minds reject any evidence. The problem with religion is that on its face value, it seemingly dictates obligations over comfort and as we do not like discomfort, we reject all or any evidence without even giving a second thought to it.
(July 26, 2014 at 3:06 pm)Tobie Wrote: Physics is in no way a faith! There is huge amounts of evidence that the universe is intelligible to some degree - otherwise, science wouldn't exist. If you could never understand what was happening at all, then there is no way you could come up with a theory to explain what you are seeing.
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.”
Page 227
The Grand Design
By Stephen W. Hawking
How will you asses this quote? Is it a FAITH, Belief, or Science?
(July 26, 2014 at 3:06 pm)Tobie Wrote: Also, there is no such thing as an "atheist worldview". No two atheists will agree on everything beyond that they both do not believe a god exists.
So, you mean to say that atheist is living without having a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world. Isn’t it a pitiful situation, if so?
