Does confidence=faith in Science? (Guardian)
June 10, 2011 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2011 at 11:36 am by Anymouse.)
Well, they're going at it in the comment section of The Guardian. Seems in "The Lay Scientist" column, Martin Robbins wrote an article: Science is Not My God, trying to explain the difference between religious faith (it will work because I know it will) and confidence in scientific discovery (it works because it has in the past, and has a track record for working). He then takes up the question: are atheists who condemn the religious for faith being hypocrites? (His short answer, no)
The comments section is telling: the dukefest between the religious, the science-minded, and the stickler-grammarians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-la...1/jun/10/1
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
