Is believing in something without adequate evidence a virtue?
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no its called blind faith\n\nyou know the kind that terrorists have right before the blow themselves up...
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If you believe there is something that was not created (god) then you are opening a precedent, paving the way to believing that others things needed not be created (eg, universe).\nTherefore, even those who believe in God shouldn't necessarily believe that the universe was created!
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If you don't have faith and believe, nothing makes sense.
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Non-existence can never be proven.  Until evidence is presented for a things existence it's simply irrational to believe in it.
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no, it's just more religious twaddle.  proof and faith can not exist simultaneously.  faith is belief without proof, the minute you seek proof, you lose faith.
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Yes. That's the trouble with BELIEF. You accept something on faith, whether it makes sense or whether there's any proof at all.
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You can have both.While intellect uses reason and logic It is not at all a contradiction to have faith or hope or wonder about the mysteries of life .Scientists cannot measure some things so they cannot be proved or disproved.Yet.
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Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
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Madison Avenue tells us that people tend to accept most readily messages that confirm what they already believe. Secondly, beliefs and facts are two different things. Having a belief, does not constitute knowing a fact. The two are not synonymous.\n\nMany people of faith, for our purposes here faith is defined as the blind adherence to a belief regardless of a lack of supporting evidence, seem to be disturbed in the face of facts that dispute their beliefs.\n\nTake for example stories about the creation of humans and the Earth. Scientific evidence, not available when the early creation stories were written, (I'm not singling out the Bible here, I'm including all creation stories of early origins) disputes these stories and reveals them for what they are, early peoples attempts to make sense of how the earth and humans came to exist. There are, however, many people who have faith in these stories. They are following exactly on the path predicted by Madison Avenue, rejecting messages that cause dissonance with their held beliefs.\n\nPeople who base their spiritual position on facts, are equally subject to the laws of Madison Avenue. They, however, can be swayed given a sufficient body of evidence (compiled and provable facts). What frustrates and mobilizes them is what they see as a rejection of logic and an abandonment of reason by "people of faith." Using beliefs as though they were facts is a habit of "people of faith" that is particularly frustrating for factual thinkers.
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I guess there isn't any way to know for sure that we know everything is there?\n\nYou could take the perspective of some people and "just have faith".   No need to use reason or logic, no need to ask, no need to doubt.....JUST HAVE FAITH!
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Believing and trusting in something you can't comprehend with any of the senses, or that can't be proven with any scientific methods.
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The only evidence you have is "FAITH". You either believe it or you don't. If you believe it, God will move inside you and He will give you the evidence for your faith. If you don't believe, there is absolutely no evidence that can be brought before your eyes not even if you live from here to eternity.
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Believing in Jesus is an act of faith because there is no evidence.
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I think it is important to believe in SOMETHING. Whether it is Jesus, Allah, the Jewish God, gods, or no God or gods at all. I think it is very important to make an informed decision on your belief rather than say "the world sucks, there is no God" or something similar.
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Faith does not rely on reality. It is a willingness, even desire, to believe in that which cannot be proven to exist. You can literally create any reality you want to, and if you have enough faith in it, that reality will appear solid and indisputable, to you, regardless of how unrealistic it is, or how little sense it makes. A lot of religious people don't really grasp this concept.
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maybe you dint find a real believer in God, who is to have an argument with!\n\ni mean believing in something is a symbol of emotional dependancy or some sort of confidence over the 'unknown' that it would help their .. watever! so, people should know whether they really believe or whether they think that they believe or whether they are testing their faith. a person who selflessly believes in god will argue with you better than a person who is a believer for his own reasons. so it depends on the mentality of the person you are arguing with.\n\nLastly i am not contending with your opinion and neither am i condemning it. I am also not trying to argue with you. I am not an atheist. I am not a christian either. you have your right to believe whatever you want.. and so have I. Loosing an argument doesn't prove that gods dont exist and winning an argument doesnt prove either. stop taking things personally and find people who you really want to contend with, the 'arguable' people.
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:}  No one can know anything for a fact beyond any doubt..\n\nEven our very senses fool us. There are dreams and mirages. We’ve all thought we heard saw or smelled something that was inaccurate.\n\nThoreau in Walden Pond, Presented the idea that we could know that we exist because if we did not we could not question whether we did or not.\n\nHaving established that nothing, beyond perhaps our own existence, can be established with absolute certainty, we must proceed to behave as if those things for which there is significant evidence, in fact exist and work as the evidence would suggest they do.\n\nWhile this procedure at times will lead to error, for the most part it is necessary to pursue this line of reasoning, called inductive logic, if we are to conduct normal life functions.\n\nIs there a god?  I use the same process. So for my purposes Yes, as far as my data goes in allowing  me to analyze the information, the preponderance of evidence suggest that God is a certain fact.  \n\nThen using the scientific method it simply remains to see if the predictions I make based on this hypothesis come to be\n\nAnd they have.\n\nI'm 100% sure \n\n\n\nOne additional fact \nMy salvation depends less on my faith than on his faithfulness!