[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[Michael Poloukhine]

> Steve P wrote:
> I thought we had agreed that religious faith is contrasted with 
> everyday belief in that it is not based on evidence.  Everyone
> agrees 
> that proof is beside the point. What do we have proof of? The
> question 
> is whether or not we have good reason to believe. When people have
> good 
> reasons, they use these reasons to try to justify their beliefs.
> When  people's reasons fail them, at that point they appeal to faith.

MP: I don't remember agreeing this was the case, but lets go with it. Are you 
saying MoQ is an everyday belief? Or that MoQ's claims can be proven based 
on evidence? Or that we believe MoQ's claims absent such evidence?

MP
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"Don't believe everything you think."