Is a belief that the sun will rise in the morning `'faith'´ or simply a reasonable belief with cause?

Answer 1

Well... it is not a belief, nor faith. It is knowledge, (a fact).
Our sun is a med. size sun, so it should still be around for a long time... HOWEVER, there will come a day where it will cease to exist, But I'd imagine that by that time we will have;
A) Killed ourselves
B) All dead because the sun made life here impossible
or
C) Found a way to in habit a new planet, whether it be through finding a inhabitable planet and a means of getting there, or making within a close proximity...
CyberNara

Answer 2

I think there is a difference between faith and what you have described. On one hand, faith is something you beleive in the absence of all evidence, or even in the presence of evidence that strongly suggests it is not true. Your assumption that the sun will rise tomorrow is based on repeated observation. While you can no more count on the sun to rise tomorrow than you can count on Judgment Day, your beleif is at least based on actual experience. If you are to NOT beleive the sun will rise tomorrow (and there is no PROOF that it will), then you are at the point where you realize that it is impossible to assume that your observations and the patterns you've put together and all your educated guesses simply CAN'T prove that something will happen, or something is what it appears to be. But again, I maintain that beleif in something you haven't experienced directly is a different sort of creature from beleif based on actual observations.

So, in short, yes.

Answer 3

Considering the fact that the sun has been rising every day for millions of years, what does faith have to do with it? It's just something that is going to happen, whether or not you believe it! Faith is more about things that are unseen or cannot actually be proven. The sun rising isn't in the same category.

Answer 4

If you are blind , this question will fall under the category of faith. Someone is going to tell you that it is the sun that is rising in the morning.

If you are in the arctic or antartic and you donot see the sun for a long , long time and some of the visiting scientists , you are having tea with , tell you that the sun rises in the morning you have belief.

Answer 5

I understand what you're asking and it's a good question.

The answer would be a reasoned assumption based on experience and not faith. Faith is assent to knowledge unseen.
You have seen and experienced the sun coming up every day of your life. It is a reasoned (and reasonable) assumption it will come up this morning.

Answer 6

"faith" doesn't have the technical history that "belief" does.

It doesn't matter, you could just ascribe the meaning of 'belief' to 'faith' if you want to. Certainly it is a belief that 'the sun will rise..'

Answer 7

Observation of repeated phenomena. Belief based on experience. Faith.

Answer 8

How do you ignore the argument that religion is perhaps a great evolutionary tactic for group survival, as it ensures that all humans feel the need to believe in a higher, objective power, which guides them and provides a stable system of reward and punishment?

Answer 9

if believing that the sun will rise in the morning is faith, then we should chuck all words like "theory", "fact" and "knowledge" out of the dictionary.

Answer 10

It is science. No matter what you believe, how you prat or even if your god died tomorrow, the Sun will always rise the fallowing day because the solar system has nothing to do with what you believe.