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Originally Posted by MouseWife
I do believe what he is missing is 'faith'. But, to him, he says that 'faith' is stupidity. He does not believe in anything he can't see or touch. No swaying him. It does kind of hurt me as I always cherished my time in church as a child and, like I said, I do believe I had an experience in church.
So, I am torn. I do not like to insult the people I care about who do have faith. I also do not like being made to feel like a heathen because I don't agree. Or can't be turned.
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Okay, to approach this from a religion free perspective, here are some thoughts on faith. Even scientists have faith, that's what causes them to pursue their discoveries. Take the periodic table of elements...
There were empty spots on the periodic table where undiscovered elements should theoretically be, based on atomic numbers. Scientists didn't know those elements existed, they just looked at the evidence and believed that, based on the math, an element with that atomic number should be possible. Now, some of those elements only exist if they're manmade and only briefly at that because their half-life is so short as to be pretty much unobservable. And yet, they pursued those elements on the faith that they existed and could be found (or made, however briefly).
Scientific discoveries happen because someone believed in something that nobody else had seen or touched.