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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I am open to possibilities but find the likelihood that there is a god to be so completely unlikely that I would rather spend my time and energy thinking about other things.
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I'm right there with you, charlie.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Understanding the perceptions from our five senses and building up understandings of systems based on our perceptions and deductive reasoning is not faith, it's understanding. There's a huge difference. Faith happens despite evidence. Understanding happens because of evidence.
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Faith doesn't happen despite evidence, it happens when evidence is inconclusive. Understanding is always limited. The world that is is much more robust than the world that we are capable of understanding.
We're not talking about some sort of grand macro perspective on all the knowledge humanity has accumulated. We're talking about the awareness and understanding of a single person. There's no way that you, or anyone else, can possibly understand the significance, explanation and meaning of everything that they come across.
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There is evidence that I, being my physical self (bones, nervous system, cardiovascular system, nervous system, etc.), exist.
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So you did some sort of experiment and determined that you existed. What was your control? Is there a wilravel that doesn't exist, and if so, why couldn't it be the willravel that you are? I know it sounds simple, but it's a pretty fundamental thing, proving that you exist, you should think about it.