In Reply to: Re: Faith - breaking it down posted by Helpful on June 14, 2007 at 04:10:49:
Well, on the "negative" side of questioning you land right into scepticism, which happens to be the "nightmare" of the positivists....you know all that about the brain in the tank, the "evil" scientist-stuff, who just programs us, that we really don't know anything...the how can you "know" thing...so since the philosophers see that "downward-spiral" of questioning "always"...I think it'd be smart for the average lay-philosopher to maintain some "good-old-faith"....it was a real thrill for me to observe, that in very Bible-critical Germany the authors/theologians who question the historicity of Jesus and much of the Bible are really in the minority now, when it was rather the "in-thing" @ hundred + years ago.And that is/was also due to the fact, that hardly anyone seems to know the prophet Daniel that well....because the conclusion is pretty evident from there (messianic prophecy)....meaning, if you know the Bible well enough, then you should k n o w (opposite of doubting/questioning) quite a few things very thoroughly, becoming your very fundament of your faith(system)
By the way some scientists have argued, that the sun's activity seems to be stronger now anyway....for me hard to know, what is the driving
force behind the "heat"(ed)-debate...
I forgot to mention, that the fundamentalists use Genesis 8:22 as an argument, that the heat-problem can't get too bad anyway...