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MarvinGardens

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3. Honest faith.

Thu Apr 18, 2019, 12:27 PM

Apr 2019

What you are calling honest faith, I call intuition: I think something is true, but don't have evidence either way. My brain, being a complex biochemical computer, has given me a tentative conclusion without telling me how it got there. I may have an intuition that a lab experiment will turn out a certain way. I can cite this intuition to my boss, to convince her that we should run the experiment. But we still have to run the experiment. I can't publish intuition in a scientific journal. If I haven't run the experiment and want to speak informally to someone about my intuition, I have to qualify it with "but I can't prove it."

So to those who have honest faith about God's existence, you could say "I believe in God, but I can't prove it."

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Is FAITH compatible with REASON? [View all] Soph0571 Apr 2019 OP

Not really zipplewrath Apr 2019 #1

Honest faith. MarvinGardens Apr 2019 #3

Yup zipplewrath Apr 2019 #4

It is expressly not, and believers even admit so. trotsky Apr 2019 #2

There's not much "reason" in faith zipplewrath Apr 2019 #6

No. Faith is used as a substitute for reason, when reason MineralMan Apr 2019 #5

So long as faith REQUIRES the suspension of reason... Major Nikon Apr 2019 #7

Yes. guillaumeb Apr 2019 #8

I keep looking for a person of faith who MineralMan Apr 2019 #9

Your answer reveals nothing other than your own opinion. guillaumeb Apr 2019 #10

No. It reveals more than that. MineralMan Apr 2019 #11

I accept that you truly believe this unprovable assertion. guillaumeb Apr 2019 #12

Oh, please... MineralMan Apr 2019 #13

No, I do have faith. guillaumeb Apr 2019 #14

.. MineralMan Apr 2019 #15

Faith means 2+2 equals cabana... uriel1972 Apr 2019 #16

Your own opinion Lordquinton Apr 2019 #17

Theories are not beliefs without evidence Voltaire2 Apr 2019 #18

I have no text to add to this reply... NeoGreen Apr 2019 #19

Many say they are "separate magisteria" or realms Bretton Garcia Apr 2019 #20

Many say Trump is an excellent President. MineralMan Apr 2019 #21

I'd agree that faith is not very compatible with reason Bretton Garcia Apr 2019 #22