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To: Secret Agent Man
The answer I like best was this exchange from Star Trek DS9

Kira Nerys: That’s the thing about faith. If you don’t have it you can’t understand it, and if you do – no explanation is necessary.
26 posted on 10/14/2018 10:40:48 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
Kira Nerys: That’s the thing about faith. If you don’t have it you can’t understand it, and if you do – no explanation is necessary.

Which is not Biblically true. There is no one without faith, which Biblically is not belief without evidence (as atheistic sources may define it), but as said in my last post, it is confidence based on a degree of evidential warrant.

An atheist beliefs his denial is warranted on the basis of naturalistic explanations, and what he/she sees as a lack of compelling evidence for a Creator, though such may postulate a "space seed" hypothesis.

But such cannot evidence how a universe could exist without a First Cause, and their arguments for its complexity on the basis of naturalistic explanations are far from compelling.

39 posted on 10/15/2018 9:30:18 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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