Ep 030: Will | Testing Dramatic Faith | Street Epistemology
San Antonio, Texas
2 December 2015
More details about this talk below.
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Although I was heading back home after conducting three hours of interviews, I agreed to meet with Austin's friend Will, who is also apparently associated in some way with Christian evangelism (the brief exchange with Austin that precipitated the talk with Will is included at the end of this video).
Will places himself around the 99 percent mark on the confidence in his belief that Jesus exists. After some questioning, it became apparent that Will's high degree of confidence would be lowered drastically if he was unable to employ special, or dramatic, faith.
Regarding the testability of faith, I felt that we were talking past each other until I introduced to shopping list example (the same example used on my second talk with Austin). It's not the perfect metaphor, but it seemed to clarify things.
These days I prefer not to use the word "falsifiable" (because it is commonly confused as saying their belief is not true), but since Will brings it up, I used it here.
Music provided by Chet Hovatter.
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