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To: GarySpFc
The object of your faith is science, and mine is Christ. Your faith is built on empirical evidence, and mine is on historical evidence.

I don't have any faith in science, at least not in the same sense as your religious faith.

Scientific conclusions change all of the time, and if General Relativity or Mass/Energy Equivalence were disproven and replaced with better theories tomorrow, it wouldn't affect how I live my life one bit. In fact it would be exciting since we'd be a step closer to knowing the mechanics of the universe. There could be a massive change in the way science is conducted in the next few generations. Maybe we will ditch the current scientific method(s) for something else. That's what is great about science; it could all be wrong if we come up with a better explanation.

Could you say the same if they disproved Jesus' existence, or his claims?

Of course not. You've already made up your mind, and no amount of reasonable evidence could make you conclude otherwise.

66 posted on 02/04/2014 9:07:34 AM PST by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner
I don't have any faith in science, at least not in the same sense as your religious faith.

You are missing the point, the object of your confidence is the scientific method. Regardless of which theory prevails your confidence is still the scientific method. In reality your religion is humanism.

Scientific conclusions change all of the time, and if General Relativity or Mass/Energy Equivalence were disproven and replaced with better theories tomorrow, it wouldn't affect how I live my life one bit. In fact it would be exciting since we'd be a step closer to knowing the mechanics of the universe. There could be a massive change in the way science is conducted in the next few generations. Maybe we will ditch the current scientific method(s) for something else. That's what is great about science; it could all be wrong if we come up with a better explanation.

Here is a quote by one of your fellow Darwinists:
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption…. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics; he is also concerned to prove there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do…. For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from an certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom..” Aldous Huxley, “Confession of a Professed Atheist,” Report: Perspective on the News, vol. 3 (June 1966), p. 19. From an article by Helming, “An Interview with God.”

Could you say the same if they disproved Jesus' existence, or his claims?
Of course not. You've already made up your mind, and no amount of reasonable evidence could make you conclude otherwise

You are dead wrong. My faith in Jesus is NOT based on credulity, rather it's based on solid historical evidence. If you could prove Jesus Christ was not God, then I would have to change, but my faith is based on CERTAINITY and not the whims of changing opinions.

69 posted on 02/04/2014 11:00:46 AM PST by GarySpFc (We are saved by the precious blood of the God-man.)
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