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To: reasonisfaith

Reasonisfaith: “Point is, science is a set of beliefs, processed in the brain by scientists and others in the same way religious beliefs are processed.”

Not the same thing.
There’s a huge difference between saying, “I believe in the supernatural power of God” versus “I believe the sky is naturally blue”.
Even when we say something like, “I believe that germs can cause disease”, speaking of something most people never see, yet still has been reported to us as a reliable, often confirmed physical fact.
So that is quite different from any supernatural beliefs we might hold.

Further, scientific theories, by their nature are never fully “proved”, only confirmed, and are ALWAYS subject to falsification by new data or ideas.
This is vastly different from revealed religious beliefs, intended to be fixed forever.


67 posted on 10/01/2014 9:00:38 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective..)
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To: BroJoeK

Actually you need to back up a ways.

It all starts with our initial position: if we accept the premise that the Bible isn’t the true word of God, then knowledge of God’s existence is either nonexistent or extremely unlikely.

But if the opposite premise is true, then every one of us already has innate knowledge of God and therefore belief in God is at least equally if not more valid than belief in the blue sky.

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:20)


72 posted on 10/01/2014 8:28:31 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they believed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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