Hillary Clinton in a recent New York TImes interview said she has strong faith, yet finds herself shocked that some senators do not believe in evolution and wants to prevent intelligent design and creationary ideas discussed acedemically in school. This be default leaves the discussion to philosophical materialism, secular humanism and functional atheism. Can someone really have a STRONG FAITH and deny there is rational evidence for a designer which can be academically discussed. Of course she cited no arguments a modern creationist or intelligent design person would use and gave no reason to believe she had any awareness of them.
2007-10-25 12:13:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and is there a difference between disbelieving in rational evidence and beleiving becuase of rational evidence, rationally speaking
"love God with all your heart and soul and MIND and strength": Jesus quoting Moses
2007-10-26 04:10:40 · update #1
"Strong faith" in what? Humanity to survive? The basic goodness in people? Man to solve all his own problems? When people say that they have strong faith it is meaningless unless they tell you what they put their faith in. Many have strong faith in evolution. No need for a designer.
2007-11-02 01:00:54 · answer #1 · answered by jemhasb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course.
In fact, it'd be a LOT harder to have faith while at the same time believing that you've got some kind of evidence.
If you think you've got evidence for the existence of a god, what would be the place of faith?
Creationism is all about denying faith and instead falsely claiming to have evidence of the existence of a creator. Apparently the motivation is the urge to impose one's beliefs on others, something that faith doesn't support.
2007-10-25 19:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Strong faith and rational evidence have nothing to do with each other. You don't need evidence to have faith.
2007-10-26 01:21:13 · answer #3 · answered by Yesssssss!!!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋