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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
Having been both an Engineering scholar and a Jesuit student, I've been 'round this carousel with highly self-regarded engineers who disdain anyone with faith. Their failure is usually one of imagination and a refusal, having been conditioned exclusively to cause-effect and mathematical proof to understand and receive the adulation of their peers, to acknowledge that there can be something beyond those cold, comfortable certainties.
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That's just the thing. The scientist/engineer atheists get into this argument because they are so ingrained with cause and effect. They (we) see the smart person who has faith in something so silly (to their minds) that a paradox is evident and want to get to the bottom of it. I don't think Purry was trying to convince you of anything, but merely trying to come up with an explanation, that from the outside, is paradoxical: why do smart people have faith in something so non-evidential?
Personally, I thought Purry's response was great.
