Your final statement is another reason why scientism is a bankrupt worldview.
Jeff
On 25 Mar 1996, John W. Burgeson wrote:
> Mullins writes:
>
> " Our belief that Christianity is true is based
> upon the Bible, which is the attestation of witnesses to events in history.
> We find that they are reliable, and thus it is rational to believe in, and
> is indeed to Christians the most reasonable world wiew. (We also have the
> Holy Spirit within us bearing witness, but the subjective must have some
> basis in objective history/reality to be verifiable.)"
>
> No disagreement. I have personally found the essay by
> William James called THE WILL TO BELIEVE some help
> in this matter.
>
> Is it not true that more than 99% of EVERYTHING we think
> we know & believe in comes to us primarily through the
> authority of other people? Only in very narrow fields
> of investigation can we assert (to ourselves) that we are
> the primary expert, and thus to be trusted above and beyond
> all external arguments.
>
> Burgy
>
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