On faith

*This post is mainly for my venting and made without enough knowledge I feel to build a really sound argument. That being said, the plan is to think about this, read about it more, and revise it as knowledge is revealed to me.

Intro
Ok, so I had what I thought was a really good thought provoking discush last night with my roommates and have since had a fresh zeal for some of the topics that have been rolling through my head for the last year. One is the idea of faith. This has bugged me far too long to not write about. Talking with people in Florida over spring break, talking with classmates and my intelligent roommates, this idea has surfaced.

It's something to the effect of "I just don't have that kind of faith" or "I can't give my life to something on faith like that".


I just want to tell you that you ARE living by faith. No matter what you believe about God or reality or the world you are making assumptions based on faith!!! I just want to write that sentence a thousand times so that people would really consider what that means in their life. There is NO worldview that survives without faith.

An example
There are assumptions in science that your teachers will never tell you about because they don't know (because noone told them) or moral reasons (the ramifications of the subjectivity of science would detract from their stature as educators).

So here's my between-classes outline about the FLAWS AND PROBLEMS in the scientific worldview. By scientific worldview, I mean the idea that science explains reality. I mean the statement "I can't really believe something until science proves it". I'm talking about the idea that random processes rule and we are merely a product of those (through the big bang and then evolution, etc.).