We have faith in the ability to advance our knowledge through exploration and research, and that some day much of what mystifies us today will be commonly understood by even elementary school children in the future.
Science reinforces and earns our faith everyday. Religion just demands more and more of it as the rational for having it becomes thinner and thinner.
We have faith in the ability to advance our knowledge through exploration and research,
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't describe this as "faith". Faith is belief without evidence. We have evidence that scientific methods of exploration and research bring us to correct conclusions -- for example, when we build machines based on the knowledge gained in this way, those machines actually work.
I would make only one alteration of that. Instead of "Becomes hostile" I would say "Becomes VERY hostile!"
ReplyDelete(Oh, and the word should be rationale instead of rational. (Last sentence.)
We have faith. Faith in our senses, faith in the results of scientists -- no one can do all the experiments for him/her self. Plenty of faith, but not blind faith or leaps of faith.
ReplyDeleteInfidel753: you're mistaken about the definition of faith. The OED says: "Belief, trust, confidence. (a) confidence, reliance, trust (in the ability, goodness,etc, of a person; in the efficacy or worth of a thing; or in the truth of a statement or doctrine). Belief proceeding from reliance on testimony or authority." The 2nd def'n is the "give faith..." def'n relevant to religion.
The difference is that empiricists make traceable steps of faith and spiritualists make untraceable leaps of faith.
I choose the first and refuse to allow the second to effect my faith in mankind.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I have a question for science.. the bible says in the very first verse, "In the beginning (time) God created the heaven (space) and the earth (matter)"... where does science say that time, space and matter come from?
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