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Originally Posted by wildsage  Correct, one requires faith in the intervention of a magical occurrence and the other requires faith in the physical laws that have been observed over centuries. The understanding of the latter has been wrong before but refined using the scientific method; the best that the former can manage when faced with the unanswerable is "we can't know God's will." |
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“one requires faith in the intervention of a magical occurrence OVER SEVERAL MILLENIA and the other requires faith in the physical laws that have been observed over centuries”.
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How’s that?
I hope you are clear on one thing, that faith cannot be measured by some ambiguous equation. Life cannot be measured by some ambiguous equation. Emotions and thought cannot be measured by some ambiguous equation.
Refined? What makes you think this “refined” version of your truth correct? If they were wrong in the past they could be wrong now. You simply refuse acknowledge that your belief in certain sciences simply goes no further than faith.
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Originally Posted by wildsage Relying on magic means that no one religion has anything more concrete than any other, unless you count numbers of followers, so which is the right one? The one that an individual chooses for him- or herself. A personal choice that can't be foisted onto another nor can it be taught on an equal basis as science. |
is that what you have reduced your intellectual lecture to is describing my faith as "magic"? There is nothing magical about faith. You’re proof of this. What magic compels you to believe that life is a result of spontaneous chemical reactions or believing that black holes have to be more than some cosmic illusion? And according to you none of us (that believe in a God) are right. Muslims, Christians, Hindu, etc… we’re all wrong. Just magic. It’s magic that the universe even exists in the first place regardless of how it got here. Your belief doesn’t have an answer for that; mine does.