The Faith/Evidence Graph

It Actually Completes Our Understanding of Faith and Reason

So, we’ll put the belief or faith or acceptance or rejection of something on the x-axis. And, we’ll put the amount of evidence for something or against something on the y-axis.

Let us give a range of minus one to one for both variables: belief and evidence. The minus one is for complete counterevidence or belief, and one is complete evidence or belief.

The Bounding Lines of Evidence and Faith

So, we get two important vertical and two important horizontal lines. The vertical lines represent complete disbelief and belief, and they are labeled on the graph as anti-theistic thinking and theistic thinking, respectively. The two horizontal lines are the 100% evidence for or against something. These four lines completely enclose all possible states someone can have of belief versus evidence for something.

The Two Diagonal Lines

Next, we have the two diagonal lines: The Line of Correct Alignment and the Line of Wrongness. As evidence for or against something grows, our belief or acceptance or rejection of it should grow in a commensurate fashion along with it. The Line of Correct Alignment has a perfect alignment with the evidence (which is why it is named this way). This is ideally…