Paper: thank you for revising your tone...
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God is a possibility right along there with the pink elephant. I do not dispute the possibility. I just challenge the notion that faith in something without any supporting evidence at all is a rational thing.
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Understood... The problem is that we've been talking about the evidence we see. You simply disagree with how to interpret said evidence. That's fine...but acknowledge that there is an interpretive debate. Ultimately, most of us understand that faith is arational. It is not understood soley with reason, nor does it stand in direct defiance of our intellectual capabilities...but it is reliant on knowledge that is non-testable in a scientific means.
Aside from some perjorative language, and the conclusions as to the value of arational thinking and evidence...that's the same thing i see you saying.
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It is also very rational to make sense of the unknown as best as you can based on your experiences. How is it irrational to believe in god, even lacking the empirical, quantitative evidence that you seem to need?
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Very interesting...i like the way you put it.