Sentences with phrase «evidence than any faith»

That is far more evidence than any faith - based explanation can present.

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Mr. Berns, however, responded that the Government's willingness to withdraw the summons as to him, without obtaining any of the information sought by the summons other than his identity, was further evidence of bad faith.

If it's all just alternate explanations that work with the evidence, I would much prefer people change their theory to meet the facts (as the Dalai Lama, for instance, recommends) than keep going with some simplistic idea of «faith».

You wrote: «And yes, I could say my life based on â $ œatheistic standardsâ $ was more than satisfactory, because I based my beliefs on reason, logic and evidence, not faith, gut feelings, wishful thinking and guessing.

It is the DEFINITION of «faith in something despite the presence of all evidence to the contrary» Indeed, it takes FAR more faith to be an atheist, than a Christian for you are believing that which is impossible to demonstrate..

With faith in your heart, you do not need to pursue proof or empirical evidence through human means which you will never find because God Is Spirit, thus, so much greater than mortal men which He created who have limited knowledge.

I can't simply tolerate anything that will honestly tell me to not accept things that a book that have a strong evidence of plagiarism from the book of Gilgamesh and the Egyptian book of that dead said, that something is bad and must be hated and purge, or that because their ambiguous faith is better than mine.

Faith is nothing more than a belief in something for which you have no evidence.

Faith that the sun will rise is more of a resonable expectation than a belief despite evidence — there is a precedent set based on long observation by not only the person making the belief statement, but also by everybody else in the world (except maybe the Inuit).

I spent two years looking at the evidence, and in light of what I consider to be an avalanche of evidence that points so powerfully toward the truth of Christianity, I came to the conclusion that it would take more faith to maintain my atheism than to become a Christian.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

«Now there is no indication that such an opinion is automatically incorrect, but as far as empirical evidence is concerned, that opinion is just that, an opinion, and it is no more solidly based than those who are of the opinion that there is a God who does not want to be made known but would rather have us develop faith»

They brainwash you to believing faith is better than knowledge, that somehow unsupported belief is better than reason, facts, and evidence, and they do it because belief is all they have.

I think religion promotes this behavior by teaching people that somehow it is better to maintain your faith in something at all costs than admit you're wrong when the evidence doesn't support your view.

Faith is not evidence of anything other than the person having wishful thinking..

If Creationists are to claim they did, then they will need evidence greater than faith and an ambiguous holy book.

Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly than any other faith system.

If you could prove it to anyone other than yourself, you could discard faith and rely on evidence.

I have much more respect for someone who owns up to that rather than trying to convince me and everyone else that there is evidence for creation, geologic evidence of a worldwide flood, scientists are part of a conspiracy, evolution is a faith etc. etc. etc..

The Council teaching readily recognizes the evidence of Christian faith and holiness outside the boundaries of the Catholic Church; evidence, one might add, that is sometimes more conspicuous than the evidence found among some who are in full communion with the Church.

Douglas adds, with respect to the equally common assumption that people of past ages were spiritually and (hence) generally fulfilled, that she can see «no evidence that there is more unhappiness and mental disturbance now than in those famous ages of faith.

I'll have to read this blog but if she uses faith in any context than she was hardly a skeptic because the basil definition of faith is belief without evidence.

Faith is the world's worst method of arriving at conclusions — far worse than evidence and rationality.

Yet more evidence that religions (not faith mind you) is populated by ignorant people who would rather use their fears and insecurities to rule their decisions than rational thought.

But this prejudice is to be understood as the result of a metaphysical faith rather than any actual evidence.

Casey, I think the best evidence God doesn't condemn gay people is when Christ met the Roman Centurion and said of him, Never have I seen faith great than this.

For the truth of his word he offers no evidence whatever, neither in his miracles, the significance of which is not to accredit his words (for he expressly repudiates attestation through miracles (Mark 8:11, 12)-RRB-, nor in his personal qualities, which apparently aroused in his contemporaries antagonism rather than faith.

to dave there is more muslim than christian so christian faith isless evidence.

... «there is more evidence for the Christian faith, than there is to disprove it, despite what the pundits might wish to say or think.»

This idea is almost entirely a product of faith, inspired far less by evidence than by the metaphysics of materialist physicalism.4 It can, indeed, be considered the form of superstition distinctive to the reductionistic worldview engendered by materialism.

No matter how much faith you have, or how much you want to believe in something, the evidence just isn't there that god is anything more than your own delusion and faith is just «pretending to know things you don't know.»

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

... I'm 38 she still can't tell me... She says he just is JUst faith - the evidence of things not yet seen... Well that is not a good enough answer... Then that would just make us also just who we are then now... Either way I don't worry cause whever life takes me / us it has to better than this economy... lolololol

While it is impossible to prove a negative, the complete lack of empirical evidence to support belief in any God and the self - professed reliance on belief (faith) rather than knowledge combined with a rigid and irrational unwillingness to apply basic logic with regards to these particular beliefs strongly suggests that God does not exist.

Setting aside the fact that there is no more evidence for a god, heaven, or hell than there is for extraterrestrial life, unicorns, or a race of mole people who seek to destroy the surface world, you have to recognize that religions, at a fundamental level, punish those who deny their faith, be it in this life or the next.

Faith means the discovery of further evidence, higher in kind and of a subtler validity than mere outward proofs.

God never has and never will use scientifically - proven evidence to convince people; personal agency and faith are more important to Him than trying to prove to every person that He exists or which is His Church.

There is much more mutual contact, exploration, exchange, and understanding necessary among the sincere followers of all faiths than is now in evidence.

That is why science and religion / spirituality conflict, and there is no avoiding that conflict as long as religionists and spiritualists rely on faith rather than reason and evidence.

He says, «There is enough evidence to show that by this act Upadhaya intended more than to acknowledge and repudiate his life's social transgressions according to Hindu law, not some religious lapse, such as his allegiance to the Christian faith» (Lipner & Gispert - Sauch: XLIV).

There is no hard evidence either way, other than faith.

I believe you have greater faith than I do as I could never be confident in something that does not exist in the absence of evidence.

thefinisher1 Are prosecutors, police and juries stubborn spoiled brats for accepting what DNA, fingerprint, video, and all kinds of other evidence indicate about who committed a crime rather than having the faith to just take the accused word that they didn't do it?

This theory is no more plausible or implausible than blind faith except there actually is a large body of evidence to support this theory across all human cultures and «mythologies» (See Zecharia Sitchin, Rael, G. Cope Schellhorn, many others).

It is hard not to believe that this was primarily an expression of sin rather than sincere faith, but there is strong evidence that many Christians sincerely tortured bodies for the sake of saving souls.

It is a term used by people grasping at straws to continue dismissing evolution even as the evidence builds faster than ever at the gene sequencing level (ie, most of you agree that drug resistant bacteria have evolved but the term MACRO evolution is misused intentionally so you could continue to dismiss science to save faith; pun intended).

The repentance you require and make evidence of «true» faith, is nothing more than another gospel, and the Apostle Paul warns us about those in Galatians.

However different the two ways may have become when Augustine was a bishop fighting heresies, at the period of his conversion his philosophic understanding of scriptural teaching about the divine order is far more in evidence than any appeal to faith.

At the moment, based on little evidence, I have more faith in Holding developing in a first choice CD than in Gabriel.

Right now, there is more evidence that Chambers will have another NIT team next year based on past performance (Lunardi still has faith though, putting them at 11 even after Carr left) than there is of tanking.