(July 8, 2012 at 4:09 am)KnockEmOuttt Wrote: Simply because this is what we've learned through our constant study, observation, and evaluation. It wasn't passed down to us in a book and told to us a truth verbatim. It is questioned, it evolves.
But you didn't learn it through study. The fact that you think you can observe things is itself an axiomatic article of faith. The process by which you evaluate your observations requires axiomatic articles of faith (about the proper way to evaluate things).
This does not seem markedly different from a theistic epistemology.
Quote:Perhaps, yes I can call science my faith. It is not a religion, it is not a philosophy, it doesn't necessarily govern my choices. But I have faith that it is the truth, much as you have faith that there is a god in control of it all.
On what basis do you reject faith in God, but accept faith in 'science'?
That's not a gotcha question, I'm actually interested in knowing.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
