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When I fall ill and go to the doctor, as opposed to going to medical school, is it rational? Off course it's rational. But that act of leaving my health at the
by DavidWanjiru 13y ago
When I fall ill and go to the doctor, as opposed to going to medical school, is it rational? Off course it's rational. But that act of leaving my health at the hands of this dude whom the world tells me will get me back to good is essentially faith.
I'm not a very philosophical/bright type, so I may come up shot if someone wanted to take this up philosophically, but at basic level I do think faith is rational. A lot of the inputs for what we consider rational may very well be acts of faith.
- MisterBastahrd 13y agoThere's a huge difference between the colloquial use of the word "faith" and what we know to be an educated guess. Scientific hypotheses are educated guesses. Going to a doctor to treat a medical condition over going to the witchdoctor is also an educated guess. In both cases, the person making the decision has knowledge about the subject matter and makes it congruent to what he knows. When your doctor makes a decision, it is because of not only his past experience, but the accumulated knowledge of other physicians. This is entirely different from "I believe that a perfect, omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent creator-god sent his perfect son to die for our sins," because there's no evidence that any of that ever happened.