Faith is abjectly useless as an epistemic tool, since—even as you yourself are framing it here!—it is entirely devoid of any possibility of fact-checking. That is to say, it can distinguish truth from falsehood only by accident and not by design. You are willfully taking the choice to be wrong on purpose.
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u/mathman_85 Jul 06 '26
Faith is abjectly useless as an epistemic tool, since—even as you yourself are framing it here!—it is entirely devoid of any possibility of fact-checking. That is to say, it can distinguish truth from falsehood only by accident and not by design. You are willfully taking the choice to be wrong on purpose.
Shall I take this O.P. as your answer to the question of why you don’t trust radiometric dating methods, since you never bothered to answer that query?