Does confidence=faith in Science? (Guardian)

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The difference between 'faith' and confidence?

When I walk into a room, confident the light is not out and flick a switch, it is not a world shattering paradigm when it fails to light. Compare that with faith.

If there is a similarity, then I lose my 'faith' in whatever I am looking at when it doesn't work. And when I fix it and test it, I may regain my 'faith' that it does work.

See, isn't it fun how mutable language is?

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Wow Syn, what a perfect analogy for my faith in God.

I guess technically, if you look at a possible definition of faith below (#1 and #2) and don't consider the others, than it could be considered faith -- technically.

FAITH:
1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
3. belief in god or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims.


That being said, my answer would be an unequivocal, NO. Because obviously, in this area of discussion and in this arena, "Faith" has only one meaning - #3.

I guess what I'm saying is that the actual term, faith may be subject to interpretation by those who would already have a biased agenda.

So who gets to define what faith is. I agree with your post, except the no portion, because I (as a peson with faith in God and faith in science) define faith as in 1 and 2, regardless of the topic (which is where 3 fails. It completely restricts the topic to theology).