God vs. Science

[The12lber]

Calling lack of belief in god "faith" is a very misleading use of the word. Choosing not to believe in something for which there is no evidence isn't faith in the same sense believing in god is at all, especially since by choosing to believe in god you are not only choosing to believe in the supernatural but something very specific.

Take this very nondescript example to demonstrate the logic behind this. An event happens, did it happen without any outside intervention or did something unknown cause it to happen?

Its one thing to decide that it was something unknown or that the event happened without outside intervention without evidence. Its something else altogether to decide that something else did it and that something was bigfoot. This is EXACTLY what you have done when you choose to believe in god or in anything more specific than that. Supernatural creation or design don't have to be god. Why couldn't it have been space aliens? Or the cosmic design committee? The Hindu or Olympian Pantheon?

More over, those who have concluded there is no supernatural intervention in the natural world can rely on increasingly accurate science (hence, its not faith in any sense of the word) to explain the operations of this world in the abscence of the supernatural. And the thing is, no matter how advanced science becomes, it can never be advanced enough to disprove the existence of a transcendant being. Don't call not believing in something like that "faith", its ridiculous