US... the day is coming, please

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Heh, coincidentally, a post on this topic just showed up on Pharyngula.

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Originally Posted by queequeger

Also, fill me in on my presumptions that people of faith believe that god created the universe.

"God created the universe" is a far cry from this:

Originally Posted by queequeger

a magical man in the sky who created everything "just because," and that in order to test our resolve he has placed mountains of evidence contradicting his descriptions,

Vast numbers of Christians and Jews do not take the story of creation literally. And of the ones who do, very few believe God deliberately placed contradictory evidence for us to find, they instead believe humans have failed to correctly interpret the evidence. Meanwhile, I'm not sure there are any believers at all who would say the motivation for anything their god does would be "just because."

Originally Posted by queequeger

So if I missed some description of the word "faith" that does not include "believing in something without enough evidence," let me know.

No, now you have the correct definition. It's quite different than the stereotyped, mocking contempt seen in the previous quote.