From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!mark Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: On Atheism - (nf) Article-I.D.: zehntel.739 Posted: Thu Feb 10 13:18:23 1983 Received: Sat Feb 12 07:09:20 1983 #R:seismo:-22500:zinfandel:8200016:000:495 zinfandel!mark Feb 9 13:08:00 1983 Being rational doesn't mean not holding any beliefs, and it also doesn't mean believing only things which have been proven true, or even only those which are provably true. Example: It is arguably rational to believe that Fermat's Last Theorem is true, although it has not been proved. Indeed, by Godel's Theorem, it may not even be provable (in arithmetic). A rational belief in FLT will be changed by a demonstrable counter-example; an irrational one ("faith") might not be. Mark Wittenberg