Faith in Science?

[bennyboy]

Is there a moral assumption, even an implicit one--an ought, a should, an obligation--to behold science or reason as a sort of imperative; is anyone justified in the demands that they expect truth to satisfy, or is the criteria for truth simply defined by the goals and ultimately the will of each person?

Anywhere the word "should" is used, outside the context defined by religious absolutism, we must always accept that there will be some arbitrary context defined-- some limits, boundaries or goals which will serve as the measuring stick for rightness or wrongness.