Is Faith Sufficient Reason For Belief In God's Existence? Flashcards

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“Faith’s belief in spite of…the lack of evidence”. Faith, ? ?, is harmful and an insufficient reason for believing anything.

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Richard Dawkins.

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David Hume claimed “A wise man…proportions his belief to the evidence”. His argument was that we should look at evidence and decide what should be ? to believe.

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Appropriate.

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Others argue ? ? for believing something doesn’t have to depend on the kind of evidence available to ? ? and ? ?

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Sufficient reason.
Sense experience.
Rational argument.

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Christians would argue faith isn’t held in a vacuum but builds on knowledge gained through sense experience and reason, but doesn’t provide conclusive ?, which is why faith’s ? Also, we base some of our beliefs on emotion and memory.

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Evidence.

Necessary.

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