leap of faith/plunge of stupidity

alrighty, through the fire in terms of exam period, just one essay and one exam left.
so, i was thinking about what to blog, and how i should do something non-philosophy/Christiany... but yeh, i had a good conversation today so hear it is.

my buddy "Frank from phil-o-biology," mentioned he couldn't take that "leap of faith" against his current knowledge. that got my brain rolling, and i realized Christians have done a terrible job explaining what a real leap of faith is.

it's Not ignoring intelligent not to believe. as my prof said, "religion is not immune to evidence."
each religion has to prove that what its text claims about the world is true (within reason). For example, the bible says Christ resurrected. well Christians need to show good reasons to believe that. if something can't be proved, it doesn't mean the religion is false, just hard to believe in. but a religion can be proved false if conclusive evidence is given against it. for example, prove the 4 gospels give an untrue portrayal of Christ's life and then Christianity is bogus.

So yeah, after explaining this to Frank said he didn't expect relgious ppl to think like that. and that's fair enough, so many thumpers will sooner quote the bible than an archaeological dig when they make an argument. Frank's a good listener.

anyhow, the convo just made me think that everyone, religious ppl especially, need to either put up or shut up when it comes to evidence for belief (you all know the verse, now learn some apologetics!).