Quote Originally Posted by Biscuiteater1:
Your last sentence says it all brother, and it has nothing to do with faith.
Do you know how to read bud?
Plane A has a 100% safety record.
Plane B has a 60% safety record.
You are deciding which plane to fly in. It requires less faith to fly in Plane A than Plane B. You come to this conclusion simply by looking at the evidences of both planes.
Nevertheless, if you choose to fly in Plane A, you still require faith as you do not know for certain 100% evidence that plane A will not crash.
If you think you know for a fact that plane A will not crash, then you are lying, NO ONE KNOWS THE FUTURE. to say you do is a plain lie.
We apply the same methodology to our every day life.
We are on a gambling forum, when you place a bet on the Atlanta Hawks to beat a team, you do not know for a fact 100% proof that the team will come out with energy, motivation etc etc. You have faith that they will come out with energy etc etc, so much so, that you put your hard earned on them. If you didn't have faith in them, you wouldn't put $$ on them.
Everyday in our lives, we exercise faith, not blind faith, but faith based on deductive reasoning from the evidences around us.
Here is another example. Science has shown that the universe began to exist, space, time and matter began to exist. This is the evidence we have. What deductive reasoning can we draw from this? Space, time and energy created itself out of nothing for nothing, by nothing? Nothing in our everyday life and reasoning shows us that nothing can produce something, let alone a universe, yet atheists believe this. Their is no other alternative for atheists, They realise this and hide behind "I don't know", simply because they realise how ridiculous believing that something can come from nothing sounds.
everyone has faith bud, everyone....different people put there faith in different things...
This site is full of people who put there faith daily in professional athletes turning up and playing well....No one knows who is gonna win for a fact on any given night