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Do you personally test any scientific claims? Or do you personally take them on faith?

• deleted 6y ago
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• ben509 6y ago
  Like any student, I did basic chemistry and physics and we tested various claims in the lab. Nobody personally tests all claims, even professional scientists have to accept some prior claims until they have some reason to believe they're incorrect. Trust is necessary for science to extend beyond the efforts of an individual, but trust isn't the same thing as faith.
• maeln 6y ago
  There is a big difference between something being able to be tested to see if it is actually true and something that is impossible to test. Want to understand and test the veracity of some theories on electricity, gravity, medicine, etc, you can ! And a lot of those can be even tested at home with simple experiment. You can sometimes even find something new, or that one theory is wrong. Want to test if god exists ? If heaven or hell exists ? If following some rules will grant you access to heaven ? You can't. There is no experiment that you can replicate that will prove any of those claims. You can try to find your own, in many way is is also scientific, but there is many religions and people have been trying to prove many of those theories for eons without any advancement. Comparing science and the belief in scientific theories as similar to a religious faith is just wrong if you stop and think about it for more than 5 minutes.