Have you ever watched "Galaxy Quest"? [...] So what makes YOU believe that the US government has not pulled the wool over your eyes about the moon landing? Nothing but faith.
Have you ever watched the Matrix? What makes you think you are really in your chair typing?
I believe the moon landings because people watched the launch. Because countries that would like us not to have gone there, and have the technology to watch us, did not protest it. I believe it because of the *vast* numbers of available, accessable witnisses and evidences for what becomes a rather easy-to-believe claim (once you've established that you can put things in space, and I know you can do that because I've seen them with my own eyes).
Nothing but faith. There is no difference between YOUR belief in landing on the moon and MY belief that Jesus walked on the water or more importantly, that he was raised from the dead. Nada, squat, zilch.
I accidently just addressed this above. The claim is extraordinary (as there's no prescedent that we can all verify empirically), there are only four accounts handed down, of dubious origin (even most Christians acknowledge that three of the gospels were written by non-witnesses). There's no video, no physical evidence, no accessable eye-witness, no nothing. It's a claim in a book.
But there is a certain amount of arrogant pride and arrogance that makes us all put our beliefs above others. We see them as more noble, more intellectual, more this or more that. We do the same for our evidences as well. But in the end, it all boils down to FAITH. Nothing more and certainly nothing less. Welcome to the human condition.
Depends on which argument you want to have? In the end, my belief that I exist, and that there is reality, and that reality is similar to how my generally accurate senses percieve it is a presupposition I've made partially because I'm wired that way (assuming it's true anyway) and out of the impracticality of the alternative.
If you want to argue that, we'll never get past that stage ("does reality exist") in either argument. If you want to argue at the more practical level, my belief in a moon-landing is based on a proponderance of material evidence... and is a standard I'm consistant on.
You, however, are hypocritical; believing one book's claims while rejecting those of another book. You believe in Jesus, but no Bigfoot.
You are taking their word because they claim they are right? Why are you not taking the word of others who claim they are right?
