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Originally Posted by willravel
So we make it up if we don't understand it? That is the part of faith in the supernatural that flies in the face of reason. Reasonable: if you don't know something, study it. Unreasonable: if you don't understand it, make it up.
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I don't think that you're understanding what i am saying. Think about crossing a bridge. You don't understand the mechanics of it, you don't understand the different factors that went into the design process, the choice of materials, even if you did know all these things, you still don't even know for certain that the bridge won't collapse while you are on it. You still cross bridges, right? That's faith right there. Theism is just one example of how faith can come into play when information is lacking.
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I can try without giving up and saying "it's god". That's the difference.
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If you think a theist can't than you don't understand what it means to be a theist.
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I understand most of the biology of the systems that make up my body. It's not philosophical, it's scientific.
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Biology has nothing to do with whether you exist- things that lack biology still exist. It's not science, it's axiomatic.