> Being a good scientist requires, among other things, to accept nothing without supporting data - which is the opposite of faith. An important caveat is this:

> Being a good scientist requires, among other things, to accept nothing without supporting data - which is the opposite of faith. An important caveat is this: a modern scientist accepts nothing without supporting evidence except, of course, the principle that "one should not accept anything without supporting evidence", which is itself taken without question as an axiom, a dogma. If it were possible for someone to live a life entirely free of assumptions, that person would have absolutely no access to objective knowledge, period. And we must not forget to mention the various metaphysical assumptions that modern day science-philophers will often try to sneak past you while claiming to be objective.