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To: Ron who wrote (396974)	1/24/2019 8:02:34 PM
From: cosmicforce	1 Recommendation Recommended By Ron Respond to of 543020

<do you believe> Hi Ron - it is funny we use that word in English in several distinct ways interchangeably, confounding the word with "think", "know", and "hope". Consider the following: I believe ... in equality ... I will have coffee ... my pet loves me ... in geology Finally, I believe in an Almighty and the Afterlife Each of these is really different. A belief in a "country" is more like my belief in "equality". It's a concept - I'm saying I'm down with it. Details matter and its more of a guiding principle. When I say it about coffee - no one expects proof. The pet, it is more of a wish or an opinion. No expects proof of that either, but some people might doubt that "pet-love" is on the same plane as "human-love". People can sort of take or leave geology without much daily life impact until they want to build a bridge or drill for oil or survive an earthquake. I can't really understand how petroleum geology in Texas didn't obliterate belief in literal creationism. Every day, people have to confront the layers of sediment, the fossils, and radio-dating. Then we have the last one, which I can take or leave as a concept, but many people have very concrete notions about what that means for them, and more importantly for me, all without proof.