when you say faith is rational and
evidence-based
I mean, if that were true it wouldn't need to be
faith, would it, if there were evidence for it?
Ahh, why would you need to call it faith? You would say it's just evidence
And when you said that, that faith
in relativity, in Einstein's theory of relativity,
is evidence-based
that of course it is, but, um
the the evidence is all-important: Einstein's predictions
fit in with, uh, um, observed fact
and with a whole body of theory
whereas, we only need to
use the word faith when there isn't any evidence.
LENNOX: Oh not at all! I presume
you've got faith in your wife, is there any evidence for that?
DAWKINS: Yes, plenty of evidence.
Um, I...
LENNOX: Mmmm!
Let's generalize it never mind about my
wife! Let's generalize it!
LENNOX: It's the same with mine, Richard,
it's the same with mine!
Because atheism is a faith, of course, as well.
DAWKINS: It's not!
Of course it is!
Don't you believe it?
