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Originally Posted by MarchHare
. To them, their faith is beyond being questioned -- many will even acknowledge that they have no evidence to support their faith, but they continue to believe nonetheless.
The quotation I posted from Carl Sagan on the previous page explains this better than I can.
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All due respect to Carl Sagan (I loved his TV series), but he was wrong. Various religous people admit error all the time in light of new evidence. For example, many Christians do not believe that the Earth is only 5000 years old (or whatever it says in the Bible). If you look at how Christian churches managed themselves 1500 years ago and the things they preached then, it is substantially different now.
I have to admit... I just can't wrap my mind around the argument that states because there is no evidence for something, then it is only logical to disregard it as "non-existant". Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense.
There is no evidence for the Big Bang, but many scientists still believe in it (as I do).