Chris Bates wrote:
>
> Anyway, my point was just that everything including science requires
> faith, because to "know" anything, you have to take some basic knowledge
> for granted to build the rest. :) If you decide to take nothing on faith
> you end up like Descartes, who decided that the only thing he could
> believe in was his own existence (the famous "Cognito ergo Sum" or
> rather "Cognito, Sum" as Christophe corrected us last time).
>
Indeed. Maybe that's the most logical view of the universe- we are all
that exists. It's certainly the simplest.