On Wed, March 28, 2007 10:50 am, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > > >>From: "Lan Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> "Faith is the firm belief in things for which we have absolutely no >>evidence, and the rejection of all evidence to the contrary of these >>things." >> >>Not the way I want to live. >> > I've always wondered why religious people like faith, for just this > reason. > To me faith isn't a good thing- ignoring counterevidence and believing > things with no evidence isn't laudible, its a sign of insanity. I take > things on evidence and probability, not faith.
That is an incorrect definition of faith. Think of faith as a trust built from many things including evidence. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
