Human Existence: Faith Not Optional

Folks,

It's time for me to get metaphysical here...just bear with me a second. You see, there are many, scientists, intellectuals, haughty psuedo intellectuals, that would have us all believe that Faith is a crutch. It's a sign of intellectual immaturity. That it is what the simple-minded and ignorant embrace because they are too stupid, too stuborn, too SOMETHING to simply use their brains.

Well, I have a few questions for these folks:

1) How do you KNOW your perceptions are correct? You have to have made some assumptions right? You have to assume that your perceptions are all you have to with which to experience reality. That, without that, well, its all pretty irrelevant, isn't it?

2) We can explain nearly everything around us by basic physics, chemistry, geology, biology, genetics. We KNOW a lot. In fact, we can theorize back to the mega singularity from which something we postulate called a "big bang" actually occurred. We can see background radiation left over from this big bang. We know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING, except...what caused the big bang? We can even have FANTASTICAL discussions about M Theory, String Theory...and we can scoot ever so closer to explaining how membranes in 11 dimensions collided to create the big bang. But, where did those 11 dimensions and those membranes come from?

3) We know that random chance and the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, came together to spontaneously form life. That it happened because of a lot of time, alot of chemistry, and alot of coincidence. We understand DNA, how all "living" things have it. We share "code" with plants and worms, and monkeys. What do we think the probability of all this happening is?

4) We know that we don't need FAITH, we have science, the scientific method, and our own minds and intellects. FAITH is for dummies. Right?

It takes FAITH in bucket loads, for anyone to exercise the scientific method. Loads of it. FAITH that if you perform an experiment 100 times, and 100 times the outcome is the same, that this tells us something. FAITH that our observations have not altered the outcome significantly (Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle).

It takes FAITH to believe that something (not God, certainly not God, but SOMETHING...lets call it infinite time and infinite materials, and infinite chance) caused all of our reality to exist. So...you don't call it God...but I do. Both probabilities are similar in magnitude. So...who is more "metaphysically" correct, since NEITHER of us can explain everything around us with physics and science, not all the way back to whatever existed before physics.

It takes FAITH to believe that even though we don't have answers for how 11 dimensions really work, or how they caused the Big Bang, or how our universe REALLY works, at the smallest and largest levels, however, we don't need a God...that takes FAITH doesn't it?

So...before you haughty, self-absorbed, pompous intellectuals sneer at me for my FAITH...come to terms with your faith. You use it every day...you just apply it to yourself, and the belief that no God exists...while I apply it to an intelligent, designer, Creator, who had the power to conceive and architect this reality we live in. Who's philosophy is more intellectually sound? The both seem to have ALOT of FAITH in them.

Regards,

Doc