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Does the Scientific Method require Faith?
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<blockquote data-quote="roach" data-source="post: 59316119" data-attributes="member: 289725"><p>Speaking on faith is tricky unless people can agree on what faith actually is: </p><p></p><p>It is the acceptance of propositions to be true and valid, void of any reason or evidence. As soon as there are reasons and evidence, it's not faith; it's a hypothesis, a speculation, an assumption, a theory, etc. </p><p></p><p>People seem to try and posit that faith (again, as I describe above) is what correlates scientific and religious ideas. They tend to ignore any distinction between degrees of knowing when measured by a common standard of belief. </p><p>Religion and science are certainly philosophical in nature: This should be acceptable to everyone. But the similarities end there. </p><p></p><p>Given the definition of faith and the requirements of scientific method, there is a point of contact. Scientific claims do make assumptions about reality that (thus far) cannot be tested. So I can concede that (subjectively) I have faith in the existence of my own consciousness; that my experiences are real to the degree that I accept my thoughts and feelings as real. I can't test these claims (yet) and still, I must accept them as true if I am to go about doing scientific work.</p><p></p><p>SO, I know there is a strange inclination in some people to equate the activity of science to that of religion based on this notion of faith, but such discussions are better left to ontological debates. The important distinctions in religion and science are merely disagreements on the definition of faith, not a real, meaningful disagreement on a standard of belief (which is the real issue).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roach, post: 59316119, member: 289725"] Speaking on faith is tricky unless people can agree on what faith actually is: It is the acceptance of propositions to be true and valid, void of any reason or evidence. As soon as there are reasons and evidence, it's not faith; it's a hypothesis, a speculation, an assumption, a theory, etc. People seem to try and posit that faith (again, as I describe above) is what correlates scientific and religious ideas. They tend to ignore any distinction between degrees of knowing when measured by a common standard of belief. Religion and science are certainly philosophical in nature: This should be acceptable to everyone. But the similarities end there. Given the definition of faith and the requirements of scientific method, there is a point of contact. Scientific claims do make assumptions about reality that (thus far) cannot be tested. So I can concede that (subjectively) I have faith in the existence of my own consciousness; that my experiences are real to the degree that I accept my thoughts and feelings as real. I can't test these claims (yet) and still, I must accept them as true if I am to go about doing scientific work. SO, I know there is a strange inclination in some people to equate the activity of science to that of religion based on this notion of faith, but such discussions are better left to ontological debates. The important distinctions in religion and science are merely disagreements on the definition of faith, not a real, meaningful disagreement on a standard of belief (which is the real issue). [/QUOTE]
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