Hi
First, the issue is not disproving the existence of god, but evaluating the
evidence in favour of the existence of god. That is what is so sorely
wanting in credibility. Certainly people are completely free to say they
believe in god despite the complete lack of any credible evidence for its
existence, but then they are completely free to say they believe in
anything, of course.
Second, our confidence in the power of human reason to discern and explain
the workings of the world without appeal to the superstitious can perhaps be
labelled as "faith", but it is an earned confidence with much greater
empirical support than faith in supernatural beings. Specifically,
empiricism and reason have demonstrated innumerable times their ability to
lead us to a deeper and more accurate understanding of the world (including,
I would argue, human behavior and experience). Is it possible that this
confidence will be falsified at some point in the future ... about as much
as that the world will be found to be 6,000 years old, I would guess.
Take care
Jim
I concur with those statements.It seems to me that some kind of a belief is
adhered to justify one's mystery of existence.Faith in God is different
from explanations of actions attributed to an implicit or explicit God.
One moment in life for me was when I joined the Unitarian-Universalist
Society and began delving into Julian Huxley and Bertrand Russell.
Should we love our neighbor because the bible says so or because it is the
humanistic thing to do.I would go with the latter.The problem with the
former is that someone will try to convert me.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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