Re: What is faith?

In article <169bfb96-2ca7-4139-be45-9f05361a0bef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
DoD <danskisanjar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Every night, most of us go to bed without questioning whether we'll
wake up the next morning or whether the sun will rise in the east.
Every morning, most of us go to our front doors confident that our
cars will start, that the trains will run, that our coworkers and
customers will be respectively friendly, or sour, or aloof, each
according to our expectation based upon experience.

Is this faith? Or is it rather the reasoned projection of logical
extrapolation? Or is there a difference?

The rest.........
http://jewishworldreview.com/0209/goldson_faith.php3

David

It is my opinion, partially based on Jewish history and
the Torah, in particular the first commandment in Genesis,
that God has limited Himself to such miracles as do not
contradict the laws of nature which He has established.

Quantum uncertainty gives God far more "wiggle room" than
probability, but unless He limits His wiggling so that we
cannot detect it, we cannot learn about His laws of nature.
Possibly, also He is not infinitely capable, but only of
very large capability. The cost of computing the outcomes
of the laws of nature is immensely greater than the size of
the universe, and God may not always be able to act to get
the result He wants.

We must use logical evaluations based on our experience and
the experience of others, and statistical decision theory
is the study of the self-consistent procedures to do this,
as well as their "engineering" approximations. I can tell
you that this can be much harder than it seems.


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This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views
are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558
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