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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
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Subject: Re: \"Just the facts, please.\"
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 10:39:00 EDT
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Ken Arndt writes:
>                  *** It is true that a religion is a belief system.
> It is also true that a belief system is based on 'faith'.  But modern
> science, mathematics, etc., are ALSO belief systems based on 'faith'!!
> ...
> The definition of 'faith' as I use it, and as Christianity uses it 
> ("faith is EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN" as Paul puts it) and as modern
> epistomological theory that our science is based on uses it, means not that
> one takes a 'leap of faith' into the dark, as the Great Dane puts it,
> but that rather that one organizes the evidence around a principle,
> theory, assumption, axiom, HYPOTHESIS and completes the task with reason.

But, are you willing to abandon your principle, theory, assumption, axiom,
or HYPOTHESIS if it doesn't work? Are you even willing to put it to the
test?

Isaac Dimitrovsky