2010/1/20 Lee <[email protected]> > > Yep I think this is what I'm asking. If i under go a change in any of > my belifes due to circumstances and enviroment, is such a change an > act of my free will, or has it been 'forced' upon me by new data or > whatever? >
New data is one thing (and wouldn't negate free will), but coercion is
something else. I think there's often a recognisable difference.
> Taking on board what you say about your own belifes about faith then,
> if there was overwhelming evidance to support my ideas on God rather
> than yours I wonder, what change that would effect in you?
If you had overwhelming evidence, of the right kind, I would definitely
change my mind on the plausibility of God's existence (if not "His" actual
existence). Evidence from faith, testimony, and scripture, would not fall
into this category. Neither would wholly unscientific scientific claims like
irreducible complexity ("we can't explain this, so therefore it must
evidence of God").
Would your
> dislike for religion generaly make you rebel agianst the 'truth' of
> the matter?
>
Being fully aware of how religion operates and manipulates, I would
certainly treat any claims of "truth" with a high level of scepticism.
Religions, and persons of non-denominational faith, make claims of Truth all
the time (and often on Mind's Eye!); you get to recognise the whiff of their
desperation.
Ian
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