On 9 May 2006, at 7:02PM, Dave Land wrote:
On May 9, 2006, at 2:53 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 9 May 2006, at 1:12AM, Dave Land wrote:
There are times I feel that way in certain online communities: open
your mouth and it's very quickly shut by the local expert.
Thankfully,
we only have a pair of those here.
Let's see if we can smoke one out, shall we: God is real.
There's no evidence for that.
None that satisfies scientific rigor, that's for sure. But...
"Faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we
hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we
do not see."
-- Hebrews 11:1, Weymouth New Testament
Otherwise, it wouldn't be faith, it would be knowledge.
I don't think there is anything 'well grounded' about a belief in god
(s) so even faith isn't enough to account for it given this definition.
Ungrounded unfounded crazy wishful thinking perhaps.
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William T Goodall
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