I'm wasting time right now.
I believe in many things that I can't prove. Some are just opinions about music, lit, and movies. Some are ideas about my professional work, intellectual interests, etc. that I would like to prove. ( I shouldn't need to add this but, damn you internet, by prove, I mean show to be falsifiable and convincingly likely. )
I believe it is possible to be a theist, a practitioner of critical thinking, and a nice person. I've seen it before. I currently have a colleague like that. Now, there are certain religions that would make it impossible if the person was to practice such religion to the letter. Yet holding simple believe in god while remaining skeptical of religious rhetoric is possible.
Why do that? Same reason I can listen to Songs in the Key of Life for the millionth time. It makes me feel good.
( BTW, What We Believe But Cannot Prove by John Brockman and the Edge Foundation makes for great, um, session reading )
I believe in many things that I can't prove. Some are just opinions about music, lit, and movies. Some are ideas about my professional work, intellectual interests, etc. that I would like to prove. ( I shouldn't need to add this but, damn you internet, by prove, I mean show to be falsifiable and convincingly likely. )
I believe it is possible to be a theist, a practitioner of critical thinking, and a nice person. I've seen it before. I currently have a colleague like that. Now, there are certain religions that would make it impossible if the person was to practice such religion to the letter. Yet holding simple believe in god while remaining skeptical of religious rhetoric is possible.
Why do that? Same reason I can listen to Songs in the Key of Life for the millionth time. It makes me feel good.
( BTW, What We Believe But Cannot Prove by John Brockman and the Edge Foundation makes for great, um, session reading )
