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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (284628)12/4/2015 4:15:07 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (2) of 541906
 
Sorry, but that is not what faith in science means. To have faith in science means that you believe science will come true and will answer your questions/needs (eventually) even though there are so many things for which it has no answers and there are so many things where the observations are outright contradictory. It also means faith in its "priests" - be they doctors, scientists, or even teachers. We have faith that their interpretation of data and the scripts is the right one, even though so many people are misdiagnosed (through no fault of the practitioner) and so much of science has been revised and discarded. We see the evidence of science to have been wrong before, but we call that progress. "We did not know/have all the facts/understand/...before, but now we know better." I completely agree that updating scientific texts and revising the practice in the face of new discoveries, solutions, etc is the right thing to do. That part is not faith. The faith part is that you are willing to risk your life and more based on the current state of science. Any rational analysis will tell you that science could be wrong now as it has been in the past and that next month this position could be reversed (think postmenopausal estrogen therapy as a small example). But we have faith that science right, or at least is the best way forward.
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