A Believer's Thoughts on Faith

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Boru

aint no faith here, just a bunch of kids .

[The Architect Of Fate]

aint no faith here, just a bunch of kids .

Says the actual child on this forum... 

[Huggy Bear]

That's an interesting take.  That long odds are somehow less probable than nonexistent gods.  Meanwhile, people keep winning the lottery.

There you go making claims again , you don't know for a fact that God is nonexistent, however if someone who claims to be god appears to you and predicts what would happen to you over the course of a week with 100% accuracy, the odds are infinite, where as a lottery ticket is like 1 in 200 million, not even close to being the same thing.

If I predict a woman named Wendy Auchenbach driving a green car with the license plate BK3 875 would rear end you while sitting a red light at 2:15 in the afternoon, If I was correct, would you chalk that up to mere coincidence?

The odds of me being correct in that ONE scenario is infinite, let alone a full week... but lottery tickets...ok

[Jehanne]

That's an interesting take.  That long odds are somehow less probable than nonexistent gods.  Meanwhile, people keep winning the lottery.

There you go making claims again , you don't know for a fact that God is nonexistent, however if someone who claims to be god appears to you and predicts what would happen to you over the course of a week with 100% accuracy, the odds are infinite, where as a lottery ticket is like 1 in 200 million, not even close to being the same thing.

If I predict a woman named Wendy Auchenbach driving a green car with the license plate BK3 875 would rear end you while sitting a red light at 2:15 in the afternoon, If I was correct, would you chalk that up to mere coincidence?

The odds of me being correct in that ONE scenario is infinite, let alone a full week... but lottery tickets...ok

This is why statistics, as a discipline, exists. And, you are correct, few atheists are a 7.0 on the Dawkins scale.

[The Architect Of Fate]

There you go making claims again  , you don't know for a fact that God is nonexistent,

Lol

[The Grand Nudger]

That's an interesting take.  That long odds are somehow less probable than nonexistent gods.  Meanwhile, people keep winning the lottery.

There you go making claims again , you don't know for a fact that God is nonexistent, 

..oh but I do, that you have a particular reaction to that is a you thing.

[The Architect Of Fate]

We have evidence of coincidences no matter how unlikely. No such evidence exists for gods and any attempt to make evidence subjective and non-universal is to render the whole concept useless. At least in terms of epistmology.

[Huggy Bear]

There you go making claims again , you don't know for a fact that God is nonexistent, 

..oh but I do, that you have a particular reaction to that is a you thing.

Weren't you guys just telling me that belief without evidence = faith?

[The Architect Of Fate]

Weren't you guys just telling me that belief without evidence = faith?

1. First off who is "you guys" nice attempt at lotting everyone together 

2. How do you know Grand doesn't have any evidence ?

3. The only evidence he needs is your lack of objective universal evidence to reject your claims about god.

[Anomalocaris]

..oh but I do, that you have a particular reaction to that is a you thing.

Weren't you guys just telling me that belief without evidence = faith?

Disbelieve without evidence is not faith.