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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
But why are you trying to apply them to another area? The whole point is that the areas don't have to interfere with one another. One can have philosophical thoughts about philosophical matters, and scientific thoughts about empirical matters.
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The "another area" I was referring to
was religion. I was saying that they are no more applicable to religious thought than any other type of thought.
Faith is more than
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desire to think about things, and to imagine things that seem likely or interesting to them.
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Imagining and thinking about stuff is fine. Faith is deciding that they are true, based on criteria that one would not consider trustworthy in any other context.
Ignoring the reliability of your selection criteria isn't much better than ignoring more direct evidence.