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> Scientists don't "believe" in science, they understand how to apply the scientific method in order to examine and discard false beliefs. Scientists need natu
by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
> Scientists don't "believe" in science, they understand how to apply the scientific method in order to examine and discard false beliefs.
Scientists need nature to be uniform for the scientific method to work, correct?
Has a scientist been able to prove that nature is uniform without appealing to the uniformity of nature?
If so, whom? And how?
If not--would you say a scientist is exercising "faith" that nature is uniform?
- gnaritas 10y agoYou've confused science for math; lose the word proof, it doesn't exist in science. Evidence shows that nature is uniform so it is logical to operate as if it is so. Science is not a belief system, it's a formal method of invalidating bad ideas period and fuck no, that isn't exercising faith. Faith means to believe something without evidence and we have vast amounts of evidence that nature is uniform so that is not a belief, that is knowledge. Knowledge can be wrong, but it's not faith because it's based on evidence. Science and faith do not go well together, and nothing scientists do requires faith.