“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
Richard Dawkins
Yes- “Credo quia absurdum” - I believe because its absurd.
A Rabbi once told me that it was because the law of shatnez- the one that says you can’t wear wool and cotton together- was so oviously insane that it proved his faith.
Its like reaching into your own skull, pulling out your frontal lobes and throwning them aside. “I won’t be needing those!”
Keep up the good work.
One of the aims of dictators is to force the people they rule to do insane things, and keep a straight face while doing them. For examples, see any account of North Korea.
Tie, it seems to me that Dawkins finds science a wonderful excuse to ignore anything he doesn’t care to think about.
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January 15th, 2008 at 5:01 am
“Ultimately, when people say they have faith, they mean that have faith in their own judgement”
That’s pretty insightful.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:36 am
way too smart for Mo I think. was this somekind of epiphany than?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:08 am
I think therefore I am RIGHT?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:10 am
“Faith in their own judgment”…
Yes. Very, very good.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:01 am
So insightful that I ordered a couple coffee mugs for the office
January 15th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Moved up yet another notch. Great stuff! Author! Author!
January 15th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
The perils of epistemology have sucked in even one such as Mo.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Definitely up a notch or two on the epistemology front. And so succinctly expressed. Keep it up!!
January 16th, 2008 at 2:01 am
nice one,
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
Richard Dawkins
January 17th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Hail Author!
January 17th, 2008 at 9:16 am
In some cases, Faith is belief in DEFIANCE of the evidence… Whatever evidence there may be is just the work of the devil…
If there’s no evidence, they have faith. If there IS evidence they have faith that the evidence is wrong…
January 18th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Yes- “Credo quia absurdum” - I believe because its absurd.
A Rabbi once told me that it was because the law of shatnez- the one that says you can’t wear wool and cotton together- was so oviously insane that it proved his faith.
Its like reaching into your own skull, pulling out your frontal lobes and throwning them aside. “I won’t be needing those!”
Keep up the good work.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am
One of the aims of dictators is to force the people they rule to do insane things, and keep a straight face while doing them. For examples, see any account of North Korea.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:03 am
A nice variant on “Don’t confuse me with the facts, I’ve got my mind made up”.
That’s not actually a quote from George W. Bush, but were he able to speak in complete sentences, he might have said that .
He wouldn’t understand it, but he would have grinned like he did if he was so instructed.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 am
Hilarious!
March 12th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
“The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a
short-circuit destroying the mind.” — Ayn Rand, _Galt’s Speech_
May 19th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
If you use the trilemma, Jesus logic pans out.
Tie, it seems to me that Dawkins finds science a wonderful excuse to ignore anything he doesn’t care to think about.