mentalgymnast wrote: I think you're playing semantical chess. If you have a fair degree of trust in the concept of abiogenesis, you are exercising faith. But that's OK, I'm not wanting to start word games here. I'm just saying that when it comes to the origins of life, one must rely upon abiogenesis as being the keystone concept that must be true in order to push a god/creator of human beings on the earth out of the picture. This reliance is just another way of saying that you have to exercise faith. You seem to want to move the chess pieces around anyway that you can to avoid the reality that atheists must rely on faith as they rely on abiogenesis as being the "answer" to how life began.
Regards,
MG
I can't really improve on what Quasimodo and Ren said.
I am curious, however, how you define faith. It seems to me it's one of those words that means something different to those who claim to have it depending on the situation they're using it. If I say that faith is "belief without evidence" I'll get some religious person telling me that's a strawman. In fact, it doesn't matter how I define it; someone will come along and tell me I don't know what it means, which is only partially true. I don't know what it means to them (at least, right at that moment, usually because they don't like what I'm saying about it). See your typical Hoops post for an example.
So if I knew exactly how you were using the word, I think I could more accurately address your comments.