What is the meaning of faith and does it have a place in the scientific world?

Question

First define faith, and the grounds for science and/or applying logic. Then tell me whether or not faith has a place in it.

Answer 1

faith is believing w/out seeing.
yes, there is a place for it in the scientific world. many people who have made great scientific discoveries have/had faith in some religion. faith also promts those in science to put further effort, research, and study into discovering many new things/ideas/etc. faith is a great source of motivation.

Answer 2

I almost agreed with the Pilgrim until he lumped in other books of which I am sure he knows little about.

All truth comes from God. It does not matter whether that truth is a religious truth or a scientific truth or any other kind of truth. All truth comes from God.

I would say, yes, there is a place for faith in science and a place for science in faith. For truly, when we completely understand a scientific truth, we journey towards a better understanding of some of the great marvels of God.

I do believe that many of the things we think are true may well not be true. It has been so in the past. I suspect that it will continue to be so for as long as man is mortal.

Answer 3

Scientific world?

faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Heb 11:1 KJV

Science doesn't have alot to do with the hope of prophecy. So there is no place for faith in science.

The question is, does science have a place in faith, and the answer is "yes".

Unless the Bible reflects accurate science, archeology, history and morality, it is as worthless as the Bagivadgita, the book of Mormon, The Origin of the Species or the Koran.

Luckily, it does.
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Answer 4

I am not sure exactly how to define faith, but I do believe that anything in existence has a place in science. If nothing else it skews the view of the observer. The simple fact that we are talking about it proves its existence on some level. The same could be said about God. But figuring out what God is and what it means is a personal journey. For some it is the giver of life, for some it is an archaic mythological being. But either way it does exist, even if it is just in thought.

Answer 5

Faith is something used when there is no tangible.

Faith in the unknown.

Faith that some process with continue undistrubed.

Faith that we'll come to an understanding one day.

For example, ALL MASS and most MATTER of the UNIVERSE is ETERNAL and can't be CREATED nor DESTROYED.

You must take that on Faith. It was always here and always will be here. Don't ask where it came from. Just take it on faith, because without that you can't understand the rest of the process of the birth of the universe.

Answer 6

There are some questions science does not address--whether something is morally "good" or "bad," what a person's purpose in life is--and of course, whether or not God exists and what the answer to that question implies.

"Faith" is how we refer to our conviction that the answers we believe to be true for such questions are in fact true. Ultimately, then, such answers are a matter of belief

Science is limited to only certain kinds of questions--those that can be answered by observation, measurement, and testing (experiment). It is a way of producing and verifying through reason and logic factas about the universe we live in--both physical (the "natural sciences") and social (the social sciences). But that--as useful as it is--is all that science can do.

Science fills that role very well. But only that role. It does not--and cannot--answers the kinds of questions I mentioned above. You can observe and test to determine what the resuts of an action are likely to be--but you cannot determine if those results are "good" or "evil-" and so on.

Philosophy---or religion--are ways we try to find answers to such questions. And we need some sort of belief system--because the answers to thos equestions are vital to us as human beings. That is the proper role of religion. It is a mistake to confuse the two-the "atheist" who clims science 'disprives" religion is as wrong as the fundamentalist who insists on treating his belief in creationism as science.

Answer 7

Of course it has a place in the scientific world. We are not omnipotent, so we have no idea what is going to happen one moment to the next. All we can do is use information that we've gathered in the past to give us some idea of what's going to happen in the future. That's where faith comes in. We have faith that our car will get us to McDonalds, we have faith that McDonalds serves hamburgers, we have faith that a hamburger is tasty (maybe not the ones from McDonalds.)

Answer 8

The word "science" means knowledge. However, I believe you are referring to empirical science.
Empirical science implies proving things that can be reproduced in laboratory conditions.
Faith also claims to knowledge, but it is not empirical.
If we refer to the beginnings of the world, for instance, neither the instant creation view nor the evolutionist view could be proved by empirical science. Proponents of each view claim that overwhelming evidence backs up their view. The problem with this is that each one has already decided which view he will adopt, then of course he can find overwhelming evidence to support it.
It has been suggested that both views are a matter of faith, in the sense that they involve believing what cannot be seen.
(By the way, history cannot be proven by empirical science either. That does not lessen its credibility for us. We weigh the evidence, the past testimonies, and the value of each testimony. Only the origins of the world involves going further back, and the testimonies are our interpretation of geological and other factors).

Answer 9

On the surface, faith is believing on or in something and gathering evidence to support those believes. We have faith that something good would come from an event so despite all the negatives, we have 'faith' and focus on the positive. In science, we postulate or develop hypothesis then we attempt to prove or disprove them by collecting data. Without faith, there really is no science!

Answer 10

Faith? Wishful thinking. Faith requires alot of optimistic thinking, no matter how "brutally honest" life can be. Faith also requires you to ignore facts.