Tear it Apart: Faith vs. Reason
Automated disclaimer: This post was written more than 15 years ago and I may not have looked at it since.
Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.
It's an extremely convincing argument at first glance, but it smells of trickery. After all, the logic here never seems to touch on the essential nature of the argument itself, and how it uses the terms "faith" and I thought I'd present it here in whether or not God exists. Rather, I'm interested in the logic of the question, but instead skirts around it with devious wordplay. Like I said, I'm not interested in the existence of God.)
- Yes
- You don't have a good reason to believe something?
- Could faith in the issues involved, just the logic of the argument.
Yesterday I was watching a Stephen Colbert interview with Sam Harris made a very interesting statement regarding faith, and "reason mutually exclusive?
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