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Should faith be judged by science? [Spirituality & Religion]

By @ladycae
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SW-User
I don’t think the question really makes sense. You can’t assess a persons faith through the scientific method - faith is necessarily personal and therefore anecdotal.

Faith is the excuse people give for believing in something without good reason, and that’s the opposite of science.
ladycae · 100+, F
@SW-User you might think that but people here all the time try to disprove matters of faith by science. which is why i asked the question. should faith be judged by science? you obviously have no faith. that's fine. yet you insult people who do. why is that? i have very good reasons for my faith.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@ladycae faith is merely pretending to know something that one does not in fact know.

Such pretence is of no interest to science (apart from cognitive psychologists, perhaps)
ladycae · 100+, F
@newjaninev2 yet you are always here to put down and insult Christians in the name of science so your actions say it interests you, a proposed science believer, very much?
SW-User
There was no malice in my comment. It’s just the questions didn’t make a great deal of sense. If you have good reasons to believe in something, then you don’t require faith.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@ladycae[quote]... you are always here to put down and insult Christians...[/quote]

An example of such being..?

Dissent and disagreement are part of informed and informative discussion. Are you suggesting that your particular religion should be exempt from that? That it should be above even a healthy scepticism?
ladycae · 100+, F
@SW-User [quote]Faith is the excuse people give for believing in something without good reason, and that’s the opposite of science.[/quote]

don't you consider that a put down? it sure sounds like one.
ladycae · 100+, F
@newjaninev2 oh maybe the continual reference to god as some magical fairy-like being as you have said in other posts. i don't disrespect science in fact, i respect it. but i also expect the same respect of faith. since science can neither prove nor disprove faith then it is not beneath science. it has simply not been proven yet. just like many other things of science that have not been actually proven yet. but i'm not here to debate science vs religion. i am here to debate the toipc,
SW-User
@ladycae It wasn’t a put down. If you have good reasons to believe in something, then faith necessarily becomes irrelevant. Your faith in god isn’t based on anything other than personal experience. You haven’t got anything empirical and demonstrable that will persuade anyone else. If you did, then we wouldn’t be having a discussion about your personal faith, we’d be assessing the evidence and coming to whatever conclusion it led us.
ladycae · 100+, F
@SW-User well it isn't the topic of the question. i have seen actual evidence and there are places where science has proven biblical happenings. but like i said, it isn't the topic of the question.