Posted by Gremlin [12.255.181.7 - 12-255-181-7.client.attbi.com] on 12 July 2002 at 21.58.38 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: but posted by Andy on 12 July 2002 at 21.01.44 ZuluTime:

Mindless infidels might pretend; intelligent infidels rarely bother.
     I don't really acknowledge that definition of belief. Belief based on evidence doesn't make a lot of sense. Belief is a factor of faith, and faith is belief despite a lack of supporting evidence, or despite contradicting evidence.
     A belief based on evidence would be a theory. To believe is to assume a thing is true because you want to; to theorise is to assume a thing is true because there are facts suggesting that it is.