Problems with this section; for Frank (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 01:59 (5477 days ago) @ Frank Paris


>Later it was realized that the fundamental constants of nature that string theory gave us resulted in something like 10**500 different possible combinations of these constants, just the opposite of the original dream of string theory.-All we get from that is the multiverse theory, with no way of proving the thought.--> 
> "Yours is blind faith also."
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> I've freely admitted from the start that my theology is just a theory that I've tried to make consistent, coherent, and adequate to my experience. But I reserve the word, "faith," to being a state of being grasped by something that transcends any particular religious beliefs. This is more like how theologians like Paul Tillich and Martin Buber used the term. 
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> Faith stems from encounters with the ineffable in varying degrees, and lots of people who profess to religious beliefs probably don't have an iota of faith in them. In any case, the term, "blind faith" does not use the word, "faith" as I do, but means something more like, "blind beliefs."-I accept your correction in terms. Blind beliefs is a good compromise. My system of belief comes from my readings for many years as an agnostic. I gradfually arrived at the view I have and wrote an autobiographical summary of my reasoning. At no time did antecedent religious values enter the picture, to answer a previous comment of your in a previous post I can't locate at the moment.