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Old 03-04-2008, 01:01 AM   #2 (permalink)
romansh
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have faith, believe and know.... I have trouble telling the three apart.

have faith .... I use in a religious sense ... so I don't have any.
believe ... I use in the sense I have experience and I am comfortable with the lack of proof, eg the sun will come up tomorrow, ie the astronomers have got their sums right and the sun won't go supernova during the night.
know ..... laws of physics/chemistry etc I use on a day to day basis, I know are reliable predictors of the universe (a bit of an exaggeration) within the limitations they used.

now when it comes to god, I don't have quality evidence one way or the other ..... but if you could define god .... that may eliminate some possibilities! So in short, I don't have faith, know or believe.

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