The great tragedy of science - where one ugly fact kills a beautiful theory.
Science does not operate on faith. Faith is completely unnecessary.
Data and theory (ie models of reality) are what is necessary. You can
toss faith out the window and still do very good science. Essentially
faith is orthoginal to real science.
larry
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:54:05 -0400, Won Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 09:37 9/28/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >This is not an indictment on Religion at all, actually. Religions are by
> >their definition faith based, and as such are pretty much closed to much
> >debate. You believe what you believe, its your faith, that forms your
> >religion, which you are free to practice. Thats all hunky dory.
> >
> >But when your faith, which by definition may lack facts (which need to be
> >rooted in science, by the way), enter the public education
> >curriculum.....well thats when i get pissed.
> >
> >My child is sent to school to learn agreed upon scientific theories. We
> >are free to discuss the validity of those theories (philosophize) back
> >home. But NEVER should one's religious beliefs, which require no
> >scientific backing, be taught to my child in a PUBLIC school science
> >class. The idea of Intelligent Design being taught in a fact based science
> >class is ludicrous.
>
> Science is faith based as well. Scientific Laws are actually a result of
> natural science within a world created by God. Of course the meaning has
> changed now but the subtle nature of it hasn't. At current, there is
> roughly about 50 scientific laws ( I think. Someone correct me if I'm
> wrong). Everything else are hypotheses and theories which require faith as
> well. I learned Netwon's Law of Gravity in physics class but I never
> actually conducted a test to prove it myself.
>
> There is a subtle difference between the faith used in religion and the
> faith used in science though. The faith used in science is like having
> faith that a friend will pick you up at the agreed upon time because in
> every instance before he showed up at the time agreed upon. The faith in
> religion is actually a lot more complicated. If you took calculus before
> Einstein, the schools were teaching you untrue and incorrect information.
>
>
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