See below:
> Religion means believing something in the absence
of sufficient
> evidence.
>
> Stathis Papaioannou
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and:
> My belief is that in matters of faith, you can
> choose to believe or not
> believe based on your personal preferences.
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Stathis wrote it right, except for the unidentifiable
"sufficient evidence". A faithful person 'believes'
that the 'evidence' he so calls is 'sufficient'. It is
a 1st person decision. Undebatable.
Popper did not find sufficient (scientific) evidence,
only falsification.
And then come emotions into play...
John Mikes
http://pages.prodigy.net/jamikes/SciRelMay00.html
Received on Wed Jan 18 2006 - 22:16:42 PST