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Huehuecoyotl
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faith
#2855581 - 07/04/04 04:04 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Do religious beliefs have to be backed by scientific method? Where is the demarkation line from science to religion. For me religion is an act of faith. To try and back it up with data seems insecure. Should religion ignore science? (I don't think so...but the other way round is good) I have had Jehovah's Witness' try to get my attention by saying science has proven God exists (even gave me a book about it...very bogus science indeed)What is faith?
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faith is like a pose or a mental posture.
sometimes it adds dignity to things while at other times it can be stiff.
as an attitude or element of attitude it can be used to power some thing else without question.
I would use it sparingly since it functions in absence of questioning
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Huehuecoyotl
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I beleive that the realm of faith concerns questions that cannot be answered any other way. If you can answer it with science faith is not needed.
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Swami
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No prayer + no hope = dead marine hostage.
Prayer + faith = dead marine hostage.
I can feel the power...
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Re: faith [Re: Swami]
#2856367 - 07/04/04 01:05 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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How can you know both of these to be true? Those scenarios were never played out. And if one was played out (which I'm sure it wasn't) then the other could not possibly have been played out. I would think the only one you could know to be true would be: Some faith + some lack of faith + some prayer + some lack of prayer = dead marine hostage.
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Science is a "religion", in many ways. Science is an abstracted search for the mind of "God". Its methods differ from orthodox religion...but I think it seeks the same end as spirituality: to understand this world in which we are placed, and hopefully to achieve a glimpse of the mind of God.
Many scientists are also religious people. Being devoted to one does not necessarily exclude the other. In science, we use the tools God has given us in an attempt to understand Nature (the Universe, or "all-that-exists") and in understanding Nature we come closer to understanding where Nature came from (God).
I, and many others, have chosen to use Science in our quest because it allows reproducibility of observation/experiment. I can measure the strength of the EM force and tell everyone my results...they can then go perform the same measurement and come up with (hopefully) the same values. In this manner we are able to construct an image of Nature that is common to everyone.
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really you are using belief and faith interchangeably. belief is like science - the details have been discussed by the believers.
On the other hand Faith is for moving forward on the basis of your belief, or for standing up on the platform of belief without needing to question it.
scientists are very faithful about the body of scientific knowledge acquired - some things wont be questioned again. They are faithful so they can move on to the next thing.
what bugs me is when people without credibility charge others to have faith, so as to move them into a more controllable position.
Again Faith is for movement without questioning. Everyone uses it. It is not the same as belief and not particular to any cosmology, but it ascribes to some belief or another and gets back to the business of movement ASAP
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How can you know both of these to be true? Those scenarios were never played out.
You are right. As nearly every family prayed fervently for the release of their hostage and most all were killed anyways; this must be evidence of the fact that prayer and faith has a negative affect. (Using soley anecdote which is the most popular form of substantiation used on this board.)
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Re: faith [Re: Swami]
#2856654 - 07/04/04 03:23 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well, my point was that since some did pray and some didn't and only one outcome was recorded, there is no comparison.
But since you used an anecdote, I'll assume you knew that...
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Strangely, there is not much difference between faith and believe in the German language. You can use one word for both. Nevertheless, I think faith of belive stands before any scientific research and discovery. First you esteem or think about what could or should be, where are the connections between things or events. What is the picture the happenings could fit into. And then you try to figure it out, get the proove, the evidence, the obvious and objective concklusion. Common methods are science, for mainly physical matters and philosophy for spiritual or more abstract matters. There exist interdisciplines like psychology or metaphysiks and so on. But on the other hand, it could also be vice versa. With some proofs or evidences, you can get a totally different faith But primary, I think, all these methods or disciplines, imho are there to justify the faith or believes of something imagined or felt before. So religion without 'prooves' is like believe without evidence. This could lead to prejustice. For religion there surely are subjective internal, psychological, social or interdisciplinary 'prooves' quite important but not solely. This brings it to the edge of the knife-question: Would somebody put his live into the hands of pure believe/faith ? With physics thats mostly ridiculous. On the other hand, many prophets or holy-men did that. Even if they died for that. I like the metaphor with the climbing-rope, somebody pointed out. Sorry for the maybe occured further confusion
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Re: faith [Re: trendal]
#2856919 - 07/04/04 06:06 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Science is a method, not a religion.
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Religion is also a method, in many ways My point was to show that the two (science and religion) do seek many of the same goals...I was not saying they equate eachother!
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The keyword is 'amphibious', both are a result of some form of reasoning.
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Re: faith [Re: Zahid]
#2858104 - 07/05/04 03:47 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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You shoul check out The eye of Shiva: Eastern mysticism and science by Amaury De Riencourt. It does really well explaining a lot of the correlations between modern science, especially physic and eastern mysticism and it's a hell of a read.
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