Do people who believe in god understand what EMPERICAL logic is?

Answer 1

no...faith and logic have nothing in common

Answer 2

Only somewhat, bronco. Though I am confused by the term "empirical logic". If you are wondering if, as a believer of God, I understand what empiricism is, yes I do. It is a philosophical mind set, expounded a great deal around the time of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. The belief of empiricism is that absolute truth could be found by an unbiased investigation of the facts through experience (experiments). Also, if you are using the common philisophical usage of logic, than I understand that as well. However, I have never heard of the term "empirical logic". Is that the logic that is derived from empirical knowledge?

Semantics aside, there are many issues with empiricism. One of the key critiques of that philisophical method came with the post-modern movement. Empericism places a great deal of emphasis on the experience but does not always take into consideration the role of the observer and the observer's influence on said experience. Post-modernity speaks of how essentially impossible absolute empiricism is since no observer can be absolutely unbiased. Minority and feminist critiques also have qualms with the empirical mind set as it is typically financially stable, white males who are its advocates. In many ways, the empirist and the fundamentalist are the same in their belief that they have the sole path Truth, be it from their particular view of God or the sacred Scientific Method.

So, I understand what empirical logic is, yet myself and other "secular" philosophers have not found it to be the be all and end all of thought and investigation

Answer 3

I recommend you read "The Problem of Pain" by C.S. Lewis if you're genuinely interested in knowing what we base our faith upon. You'll be surprised to find out that believing in an all supreme being is not that far fetched, and that there are a great many things that can be supported by the laws of logic.
For example: an atheist can't logically assert that there is no omniscient supreme being , because that would be an absolute negation. And the only way to state an absolute negation and make it stick is if you yourself have absolute knowledge. So in a sense, if that were possible, you would be negating your own existence.

Answer 4

Some do, some don't. Your mistake is that you're classifying all religious people as fundamentalists.

Take, for example, the father of my friend Greg. He's Catholic, but also the former dean of biology at a local college. Based on your blanket statement, he must have a hell of a time doing his job when his scientific mind clashes with his religious persona. However, like many Christians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims etc..., he's able to separate the ideals of the church from the dogma of the church. He realizes that the Church trumpets creationism, but knows that evolution is really what happened. That still doesn't stop him from believing in God or going to church on Sundays.

The most vocal (and usually most annoying) proponents of religion tend to be the most fanatical or fundemental. You'll see this occur in the case of some Protestants who want abortions made illegal, Muslims who kill in the name of doctrine or Catholics who decry birth control. However, just because these people are the most vocal members of their goup doesn't mean they speak for the group as a whole. It works the same with politics, and you'll find that it works the same with a lot of things in life.

Answer 5

Some believers in God fail to understand the meaning and application of empiricism, and some who don't believe in God are equally ignorant.

Some of the top scientists of our time (and of all time) are believers and others are not believers.

The two groups (believers in God and atheists) contain all kinds of people's with all kind's of philosophies and backgrounds.

It is almost always foolish to expect either group as a whole to have anything in common.

Answer 6

Yes I do, because I know that God has all answers to our lives questions. People believe that religion, and science are always disagreeing with each other on who has the right answers to everything, but people have to relies the Bible is Gods knowledge on the world, and science is mans knowledge on the world. I believe that most discoverys on what scientist make gets us to the understanding on how God did it, but we never made that discovery on how it can make a linkto make sence on what the Bible says, because we need to make more discoveries to find out more.

Answer 7

Not so sure the two notions correlate. But it's a good bet that most of the people on Yahoo Answers don't know what the word Empirical means.

Answer 8

I have no idea what empirical logic is.
If you want some logic about belief in God, look up
"Pascal's Wager"
on wikipedia. It's a nice short article, and easier reading than the Bible.

Answer 9

Yes, they just don't believe it is a necessary process to determine whether they believe in God or not.

There are many scientists, engineers, blah blah blah who believe in God and who certainly are familiar with empirical means of proof. They just don't believe it is a necessary basis to form ALL beliefs under.

Answer 10

Religion and Science cannot be joined, Logical thinking can't hang up with faith....
Faith is the act of "don't want to know the truth"

Answer 11

I'm still trying to figure out how so many people are lining up Science against Religion and still not claim Parapsychology a real science...........