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I've been chuckling over this all evening so I decided to make a post. I have a good friend, in fact one of my best friends, who enjoys those slightly, or more than slightly heated philosophical/religious/science debates. Even though we have been friends for a long time now, I drive him totally nuts. I always have. He still hasn't figured out my real position on UFOs, and he thinks physics is way over the edge with ideas like string theory, hyperdimensional spaces, Schrodingers cat, etc, etc, etc. Also, he is an atheist and I'm a Christian. Tonight we got into the whole mess.
He started challenging me on the logic of faith. For the next hour I kept trying to explain that it requires faith to accept or to deny any such belief. We can never prove a negative, so even his position requires faith. He just couldn't see how this could be and it really started ticking him off. We went round, and round, and round, until finally he blurts out in disgust, "that would mean that we can't know anything!". Exactly, I said. So why believe anything? Because some of need to, I replied. Well that's stupid he says. Do you know why I believe in Christ, I asked. Why? Because I saw him on a UFO. I have to hang up now, he replied.
He started challenging me on the logic of faith. For the next hour I kept trying to explain that it requires faith to accept or to deny any such belief. We can never prove a negative, so even his position requires faith. He just couldn't see how this could be and it really started ticking him off. We went round, and round, and round, until finally he blurts out in disgust, "that would mean that we can't know anything!". Exactly, I said. So why believe anything? Because some of need to, I replied. Well that's stupid he says. Do you know why I believe in Christ, I asked. Why? Because I saw him on a UFO. I have to hang up now, he replied.