[MD] Dawkins a Materialist

[ian glendinning]

DMB
And who's arguing ?

I'm trying to move on, constructively, something like ...
Given that understanding of "faith" what is it that actually
distinguishes faith from scientific beliefs ? What make a good
"reason" to believe as you put it elsewhere  ? Why am I asking such
banal questions ? Because they also seem to be at the root of whatever
it is that distinguishes social from intellectual ... leaving aside
the religious language baggage (from this dicussion, for now) the key
words in the dictionary quotes seem to me to be "traditional" and
"question".

I don't see either religion or science as having a monopoly on either.
Which seemed to be one of David M's recent points too ?

Oh, and whilst I've got your attention, talking about straw men, as
you were, you attributed this dumb syllogism to some of your chosen
adversaries.
"Traditional religion is a belief system and Science is a belief system,
therefore they are the same."

Again I ask who ?
Ian

On 1/7/07, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> MOQers:
>
> Somebody? looked up the word "faith" in the Merriam-Webster Online
> Dictionary:
> 2 a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the
> traditional doctrines of a religion  b (1) : firm belief in something for
> which there is no proof (2) : complete trust (3) : something that is
> believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of
> religious beliefs <the Protestant faith> synonym see BELIEF (3) - on faith :
> without question <took everything he said on faith>
>
> dmb says:
> See? Was that so hard? That's all I'm talking about. I'm just using standard
> definitions.
>
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