I'm not very good at this stuff, but I have heard you make this argument before and it just doesn't work for me. After all the reasoning is done, you wind up taking a leap of faith, even if you think it is done with logic under your wings. Now, you may say that we do all these other things on faith also, but we have immediate and repeated feedback- we don't fall into a black hole, we eat many apples without blowing up, we feel better when we swim.
Of course, there are some who probably look at apples with suspicion, having once bitten into a worm, and I have a friend who stepped off a curb she didn't see, fell on her face and broke both wrists, but, overall, don't we have a great deal of physical proof on which to base this "faith".
I have an easier time contemplating some great organizational Force (though not one that cares or Loves or even reasons in the human sense) -- maybe the word God, with all its baggage, is what gets in the way for me. Since there is not a great deal of empirical proof for God the Intervener, or God the Bearded Dad, or God the Avenger (hmm- well, maybe that one)and especially God the Savior (my God is bigger than yours), I find myself not "giving up", but not committing.
Hope this made even a modicum of sense. |
