Hi decota.
One interesting thing, is that the more you learn about science and the
scientific process, the more you realize that it is just as much a matter of
supposition, speculation and opinion based on pre existing conceptions of
the world as any other belief system, and people like Richard dorkins who
seem to think that it's any sort of method of discovering universal truth
are completely and utterly on the wrong track.
This isn't to say everyone is right, or that we should accept any view
unchallenged, only that the belief, originally started in the later part of
the enlightenment and then carried on by movements like logical positivism,
that on the one hand there is rational, cold and objective science, and on
the other there is irrational immotive religion is utterly unfounded.
indeed, when I was doing my A levels in psychology, biology and religious
ethics, it always amused me that in the ethics and psychology we'd get view
of people who said "no, it's all just neural chemistry, there is no
unphysical mind" then in biology when actually studdying! neuro chemistry,
it would be "well this is sort of slightly how we perhaps might think a
reflex might sort of work!"
My own religious belief I do not call faith, sinse it is based on direct
experience, thus it would be irrational! or at the least inconsistant with a
belief in the reliability of my own perceptions of the world to disbelieve
those experiences, albeit that these days I am somewhat less certain as to
whether God actually cares about anyone on a personal level or is in any
sense active.
My own religious beliefs aside though, I suggest you look into the practice
of philosophy of science, more specifically Hume's outline of the problem of
induction, Kuhn's arguements of paradigm shift, and Paul ffiaabent's
arguement from experimental regress.
All are very well outlined in an introductory book called what is this thing
called science, edited by A.J. chambers. it was one of my text books when I
studdied philosophy of science during my degree, but was one of the best
written and most interesting to read, and I'd highly suggest anyone
interested in this topic have a look at it.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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