Epistemology In Conflict With Religion Essay

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Epistemology in conflict with religion

According to Entwistle (2015) epistemology falls under the science of philosophy which main concerns are theory and explanation of knowledge. (Entwistle, 2015) Main epistemic methods are logical reasoning and empiricism. Some other concerns are doubts if our knowledge claims present just an opinion or justified belief. The basic epistemologic foundation is a search for a causation and proofs. For instance, if the God exists is there any empirical data to support that statement? I certanly believe that epistemology and Christianty stand in front of each other. In other words, they are on oposite sides and fundamentally incompatible with each other.

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Non-religious people would say that believing in God and higher authority is irrational and mainly because of the two reasons. One of them is lack of evidence and other one is evidence to the contrary. In other words, the belief in God is rational only when there is a sufficient evidence for the existance of God (Clark, n.d.). God’s existance is a certain type of claim and it requires approporiate evidence in order to support it (Corbett, 2012). Let’s say for instance, that someone wants to validate geographical claims. It would be very easy to validate them through using maps or small size globe. Or for example, validation of distance can be done by using different kinds of measurements. But how do you validate God’s existance? You cannot measure it, or use maps in this case. Does the Bible trully claims the exsistance of God? One of the epistemologic objections would be the question about all the evil in the world (Corbett, 2012). If the God exists, how come there is so much pain, struggle and suffering in the world? Why did some little baby, or any human in general deserve do die or suffer from illness? These are some of the stronges epistemologic objections that conflict with my view about religion and Christianity in

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