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Originally Posted by Jehanne
As you can see by my previous posts, I came to this board as an atheist. In June, I returned to my Catholic faith and confessed my sins to a Catholic priest, who granted me absolution and lifted my excommunication from the Church. I think that religious faith versus atheism/agnosticism is seeing 'the glass' as being half-full as opposed to half-empty. Even Dawkins, in his The God Delusion, admits the possibility of God's existence, stating in his lectures that he is a 6.8 on his 1 to 7 scale. Converting this equal-interval scale to a ratio scale means that Dawkins believes that there is a 1 in 30 chance that God exists. Not too bad, even by his standards.

What convinced me? Well, probably, the Argument from Consciousness, and especially, the private notes from the late Mother Teresa. Dr. Craig, to my knowledge, has never used this argument in any of his debates. For me, however, it is a compelling argument, basically, that we are something more than just "molecules in motion." I think that this is an insurmountable problem for modern atheistic apologetics.

Faith need not be absolute. I can admit that I could be wrong. So, on Dawkins' scale, I would put myself around the 2.5 to 3.0 mark.

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Originally Posted by parklife
It's interesting because from my point of view, Mother Theresa private notes is in contradiction with Craig's apologetics (about the inner testimony of the holy spirit, and the rationality of faith).

“The damned of Hell suffer eternal punishment because they experiment with the loss of God.

“In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God and that he does not really exist.”

Where is the Holy Spirit???