Why do people put so much faith in Scientists?

Question

When you can find a scientists to prove your point and another scientist to prove the opposing point. Does not make sense to me!

I ask this question because a lot of atheist are baseing there, there is no God theory with scientific proof....and yes it is faith no matter how you look at it. we put our faith in something, Christians choose to put their faith in God. We trust the Bible which has been around for thousands of years without changing, which scientist are changing theory's all the time.

Answer 1

Agreed! Putting your faith in science or any scientist is purely arrogant and foolish. Humans and their cleverly invented myths/theories will fail... Jesus, who is God and Savior, will never fail.

Answer 2

There is a peer review process that determines what is good science by looking at how data is collected and how conclusions are drawn. It doesn't care what the conclusions are, just that it was reached in a legitimate way.

The problem the Christians have is they start with a conclusion and work toward that. That is the worst kind of science. In the context of evolution for instance, it isn't like you portray it at all. Nearly all scientists that are actively doing real research know that evolution happened. There is absolutely NO DEBATE in scientific circles about anything other than tweaking the mechanism at all. There is not a single paper that passed the peer review process in the last 50 years that goes against it. It is the ENTIRE BASIS for modern Biology and Genetics.

Believing in it takes no faith at all. It happened.

Answer 3

Its not individual Scientists who most of us believe. It is the laws established by SCIENCE. Science by its vary nature is a process that allows theories to be proven or disproven. A Scientist may theorize that there is Gravity, but it isn't Science until many of his educated peers prove the theory through a testing process.

Faith in Science is actually a belief that through numbers things can be proven. If you use a microwave oven, a toilet, go to a doctor, eat processed cheese etc....you are putting your faith in Science, which has proven to be consistently good for society.

Christianity, on the other hand is putting ones faith in the translated writings of uneducated jewish fishermen that lived before discoveries such as gravity, relativity, medicine, electricity and toilets.

If I have a choice of learning from an uneducated person who lives in a 3rd world country or a scientist who works in a Lab, call me crazy but I am spending my time with the scientist. He may not always be right, but my chances of not getting eaten by him are allot greater.

Answer 4

Actually, people are always changing the Bible.
How many different translations are there? And how many debates on what the words really mean? Does not make sense to me!

Scientists spend a lot of time studying their area of expertise. Facts that have been found over the entire course of humankind. It is something tangible that can be proven with endless examples. That's why I trust many scientists

Answer 5

The essence of science is conflict. Different parties try to prove opposing theories, and eventually the bad theories get shaken out and the reasonable ones remain. Science is ever-changing because the state of human knowledge advances over time. The fact that scientists disagree over their theories is a sign of its strength, not a sign of weakness.

And I believe that you're mis-using the word "faith." Science doesn't require faith, because it is by its very nature able to offer real evidence to back up its claims. Faith is only required when there isn't sufficient evidence to prove a claim.

Answer 6

It makes perfect sense in a court of law you have opposing sides. It is up to the jury to decide from the evidence who is right. With science you are the jury. Sooner or later one side proves to be right. There has never been any evidence that the bible is true. You give evidence that it is old that is not evidence of truth. You say it has been around thousands of years without changing which is a lie. It has been through hundreds of translations and revisions.

Answer 7

Because they allow for such a thing to happen. The prove something until a better solution comes along, and then it changes. Religions however denies and denies everything new and anything beyond itself. Science changes/evolves based on new information. If you can prove its not they way we actually understand it then are you have the new theory. Ever changing always discovering. Makes perfect sense to me.

Answer 8

True scientists are looking for the absolute truth. They are not objective. (that means they dont look for evidence to prove conclusions, but form conclusions based on evidence) Scientists will debate over things, but this is a healthy part of the scientific method.

Answer 9

You're not completely ignorant, because you do raise a point: there's always a competing idea. Journalists like the idea of presenting 'both views' (hinting that the truth is somewhere in between), even when one is obvious and the other is retarded. One side CAN be completely wrong.

You have to look at not just what they're saying, but who is saying it, how they came to that conclusion, and why they're saying it. A meteorologist's research on Evolution is not quite as reliable as that of an Evolutionary Biologist.

Answer 10

Science is based on theories backed up by experiments. Some of the latest theories have not yet been backed up so anyone can argue the point until and experiment is designed to test the theory.

Answer 11

every scientist has a job to be skeptic, they tire of ideas that have been proven, they TRY to find weaknesses so that they can claim prize to an even better understanding.
science is adaptable, changing as our understanding of the world becomes clearer. evolution IS proven and there is NO sensible accusation against it. the only ones still fighting that are the christian fundamentalists, whom CANNOT change their belief outside of the bible, no matter how much evidence is piled against them.