Some people say that religious beliefs can neither be justified nor refuted by reason. However, while sometimes this claim is used as a reason for rejecting religious beliefs, at other times it is used to conclude that these beliefs are established by faith. To what extent is faith a legitimate basis for knowledge claims, in religion and different Areas of knowledge?
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faith??
- Thread starter Notti
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well they cant be justifed by faith, read this it should make things clearer. http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=40015Notti said:Some people say that religious beliefs can neither be justified nor refuted by reason. However, while sometimes this claim is used as a reason for rejecting religious beliefs, at other times it is used to conclude that these beliefs are established by faith. To what extent is faith a legitimate basis for knowledge claims, in religion and different Areas of knowledge?
Faith is trust. It can be based upon many different things and manifest in a variety of degrees and ways. You can have faith in your parents, family, friends, employer (though I wouldn't suggest it). You can have faith in science or in the scientific method, the government, the military, the police (yea, that's a riot), or society and humanity in general. You can have enough faith in the law of gravity to keep you from walking off the edge of a cliff.
Notti said:Some people say that religious beliefs can neither be justified nor refuted by reason.
There is no higher measurement of truth than reason. How do you measure something with faith? There is no working model of theistic epistemology as far as I know. Without reason, you can't even understand and respond to this message.
However, while sometimes this claim is used as a reason for rejecting religious beliefs, at other times it is used to conclude that these beliefs are established by faith. To what extent is faith a legitimate basis for knowledge claims, in religion and different Areas of knowledge?
Belief doesn't equal truth. If you have strong faith in something, that doesn't mean its true either. Some people belief in Santa Claus, that doesn't mean it's true. Many Aztecs have faith so strong that they were willing to be sacrificed to their gods.
The biggest problem with faith is that there is absolutely no way for a person to determine what god(s) to put his faith in, if none of this can be proven.