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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: JeffA who wrote (919)9/15/2006 11:46:13 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 10087
 
the they say things happened, 10 to the -43 power, seconds after the big bang. If that ain't faith, I don't know what is...... You could call it a WAG or a SWAG and I'd agree too.

It ain't faith. It's a projection, an extrapolation, an estimate, a not totally WAG but an educated guess. No one, at least no one with integrity, claims it as fact. It's a theory. While one may believe it to be true because it makes sense that way or there is a preponderance of evidence to support it is not the same thing as faith. Believing something to be true is not the same thing as believing IN it. In that context, "believing" means think that it is probably true. It's unfortunate that our untidy language has confused that distinction but the conceptual distinction exists nonetheless.

One could approach the existence of God, too, as a theorizing exercise if one were so inclined. Notions like intelligent design sort of do that through the back door. You take what evidence you have and spin it into a theory that works for you. But that's not the same as having faith--believing in something simply because you believe. If you have true faith, you don't need any evidence. And you continue to believe in the face evidence to the contrary. That's faith. Whole 'nother concept.
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