Forgive me if I've missed some points in this thread:
You don't take the sun coming up tomorrow morning as a faith based argument.
The sun has come up for millions of years, and for as long as human civilization has been around, there has been no deviation from the plan. Scientific evidence does not lead us to accept the sun as an uncertainty, far from it. In our lifetime at least, it is a very practical certainty, not an absolute one. There is always the unforseen event, the factor that is by definition unaccountable that can cause a catastrophic change or demolition to the entire system. This is where faith comes in.
You have faith that a destructive or disruptive event WON'T happen. Since you don't have evidence for the unforseen element, you can rely on faith to reinforce your assessment of what is demonstrably certain.
You don't have faith that the sun will come up. It demonstrates the furthest degree of physical certainty we can have in this lifetime on this Earth. You have faith that something WON'T occur to impede this event, since faith is an assertion when no evidence is present.
We have evidence to fully understand that the sun will continue to provide the Earth with energy for millions of years to come. When you have evidence to infer or predict an outcome that has been accurate beyond deviation, it leaves the realm of faith.
You don't take the sun coming up tomorrow morning as a faith based argument.
The sun has come up for millions of years, and for as long as human civilization has been around, there has been no deviation from the plan. Scientific evidence does not lead us to accept the sun as an uncertainty, far from it. In our lifetime at least, it is a very practical certainty, not an absolute one. There is always the unforseen event, the factor that is by definition unaccountable that can cause a catastrophic change or demolition to the entire system. This is where faith comes in.
You have faith that a destructive or disruptive event WON'T happen. Since you don't have evidence for the unforseen element, you can rely on faith to reinforce your assessment of what is demonstrably certain.
You don't have faith that the sun will come up. It demonstrates the furthest degree of physical certainty we can have in this lifetime on this Earth. You have faith that something WON'T occur to impede this event, since faith is an assertion when no evidence is present.
We have evidence to fully understand that the sun will continue to provide the Earth with energy for millions of years to come. When you have evidence to infer or predict an outcome that has been accurate beyond deviation, it leaves the realm of faith.
