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> Without faith you could not accept any scientific conclusion Nonsense. I don't need faith to assign various claims varying degrees of trust and confidence.
by sjwright 13y ago
> Without faith you could not accept any scientific conclusion
Nonsense. I don't need faith to assign various claims varying degrees of trust and confidence.
- stephen_g 13y agoPerhaps we're just arguing semantics, but I think that is a large part of exactly what faith is! Or perhaps you just dislike the term because it's often used in a religious context?
- sjwright 13y agoYou might be arguing semantics, but I'm not. I see a gulf of difference between any definition of "faith" and how I derive confidence in science. No definition of faith I'm aware of relates to confidence based on weight of evidence, or balance of probabilities. To use your example of pharmaceutical efficacy, I take a pill with the expectation that it will elicit results comparable to its stated claim. I hope that it works. I'm happy if it does work. But my worldview won't be shattered if it doesn't.