Faith as I understand it is setting aside judgement until you see something through. In the case of religion it would be believing that God exists (even though you don't know) in order to sincerely explore the possibility.
Faith as I understand it is setting aside judgement until you see something through. In the case of religion it would be believing that God exists (even though you don't know) in order to sincerely explore the possibility.
Setting judgement aside?
Believing that he does exist in order to see if he does?
Um, okay...
No one tries to solve a problem or explores the unknown without first believing it's possible - and further, how much harder and more sincerely do we work when these beliefs are strong rather than weak?
Except 'God directed' evolution has the same evidence as Theory of Evolution, as essentially they are the same with respect to everything else- although 'God directed' is an extra assumption (although a replacement for 'random' which is also an assumption).
Religion is not the nullification of the natural.. They can perfectly compliment each other.
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See my other thread...How not to experience.
But we do do this in many types of learning. We act AS IF. Sometimes the AS IF sticks, sometimes it does not. But assumptions, especially of our own competence and the possibility of something working, help learning.
Shadow, those things were invented by the arabs, without them, somebody else would have figured it out.
And I wouldnt say chemistry because people have been mixing things together for millenia, to say the Arabs did it first is pretty silly.
the Chinese probably would have been the earliest example of a significant finding because of chemistry in the form of gunpowder.
I dont think the arabs were the first to invent mechanics, the Greeks were, and they actually made an analog clock too.
A camera? I don't get it, what did the arabs do for the camera?
Surgery? Weve found skulls from cavemen which had holes in them from brain surgery, I think we can call those the first surgeons.
Even the Romans had varying success with surgery.
advanced mathmatics? For that period, it was advanced I will give you that, but right now, it would be like algebra 1.
Those things while significant, were invented by other societies, some even before the arabs.
It's just that when the Europeans came along in their blood bath of the crusades and were amazed with it they finally got the movement going. But that was more luck than anything.
Yep. There are plenty out there.
There are plenty at the end of that list--many are still alive.
Once again there's a difference (and it's a more than subtle difference) between "believing" something is worth doing, or is possible, and believing god exists.
What's the difference?
With science (and daily life) it's based on known factors , e.g. we have solved something similar before, someone else has done something similar, etc.: I'll see what I can do along these lines and see what I learn.
With religion it's a confidence that god actually does exist (to the point of asserting that existence to others) and shaping your life around that belief. With no actual evidence.
I'm talking about things unknown or almost completely unknown to us that could cause a paradigm shift (like einstein's theory of relativity.) What you're talking about is the fleshing out of something that has already been discovered.
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I can tell you must athesist. correct? and btw I see you don't read posts because if you go back to my first post I said I do do the thing I was telling people to do.
In which case science doesn't believe, nor do scientists. If it's unknown then by definition there's no evidence.
Link? I was under the impression Hawking is an agnostic if not an atheist.
Wrong: you claim you do but the evidence contradicts that claim. Which was the point I was making (and you failed to grasp, once again making my point for me).
Scientists work under the assumption that everything is naturalistic- there is no evidence that everything is naturalistic.
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I think he is agnostic myself, but he claims to believe in god, but he is in no way part of any religion.
I read it in an interview once. Im trying to find it. I couldn't find it, but basicly it said he believes in god, but not the same on all chritans/jews worship. A more simple one. I guess