Is Faith Sufficient Reason For Belief In God's Existence? Flashcards
“Faith’s belief in spite of…the lack of evidence”. Faith, ? ?, is harmful and an insufficient reason for believing anything.
Richard Dawkins.
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.
Appropriate.
Others argue ? ? for believing something doesn’t have to depend on the kind of evidence available to ? ? and ? ?
Sufficient reason.
Sense experience.
Rational argument.
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.
Evidence.
Necessary.