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If you define faith as believing in a proposition in the absence of evidence for that proposition, then you don’t need an argument to support that because you’re making the claim that that is what faith is by definition. There are different schools of thought about the relation between faith...

Plantinga with the sauce will wrap this tit for tat up nicely...

This subject is the main subject of my current research as an undergrad in philosophy of religion. I was planning on getting around to a discussion of it over on our worldview discussion thread. However, I do think the subject is so important that it demands a section of its own, hence my joy in...

Imagine for a moment you’re someone like Richard Dawkins or Neil deGrasse Tyson, or Carl Sagan and you’ve literally placed all that you are into the scientific enterprise and one day someone like Ray Comfort is on Fox News and says, “Childhood indoctrination in the scientific method is the...

The faith vs. reason debate persists because I think so many are taught exactly what DogmaHunter thinks is true, that faith and evidence are antithetical to one another.

This seems to be the crux of your argument: A necessary condition of being a Christian (or an adherent of any religion), is that you cannot have evidence or good reasons for your religious beliefs. Now the only reason you’ve given for thinking that that is a necessary condition is that...

What are your thoughts on Martin Luther’s conceptualization of faith? Are you familiar with it? Thanks for clarifying by the way.

I think this discussion is beneficial because it teaches us that before we can agree with or disagree with someone’s argument, we have to first know what that argument is. It seems to me that DogmaHunter is arguing for the view that all religious beliefs are grounded on faith and not evidence...

Sure, I can agree, if that 1% includes for example, all the people that converted from their inherited worldview to another. I would however, point out that positing a purely psychological explanation for explaining this data would require us to assess other competing hypotheses to see how...

It seems too easy an argument to refute which is why I was hesitant to think DogmaHunter would use it. I think we should just hold judgment until he clarifies.

I know you as a Buddhist, believe that there are these timeless laws understood and mastered through the Noble Eightfold path in order to ultimately achieve nirvana or the absence of all desire. I also agree with you that we have a sense of suffering, of pain, and of desire in this life. What I...

Having wrapped up our discussion concerning the four questions every worldview deals with, we will now turn our attention to the rational warrant for the various worldviews discussed. I am interested in hearing from everyone who participated in the first discussion (and anyone who didn't for...

I think St. Augustine’s conversion would furnish us with a disproof of this hypothesis, if indeed what you say is an accurate representation of DogmaHunter’s hypothesis. Let us allow him the opportunity to clarify, for surely DogmaHunter is aware that St. Augustine was a Manichean prior to...

DogmaHunter, I think it’s more plausible that what you have said is true than false. It seems plausible to me to think that 51% or more of people adhere to the worldview of those who raised them.

This is a good question and one which philosophers of self attempt to answer. Discussing it now, however, would take us too far afield from our discussion but I will try to incorporate it into our future discussions.