Do they both require faith?
2007-11-03 18:11:17 · 18 answers · asked by M-S 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Having faith in God could mean you believe he gave us a brain to use it.
2007-11-03 18:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by charlie the 2na 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's blatantly ridiculous. Are you even famillar with the concept of 'peer review'? That's when a scientist publishes something, and lots of other scientists look it over, pick it apart, and generally do everything they can to prove it wrong. Point being, with having faith in god, you say "there's a god, my old book says so, you just have to believe!!" - with science you make a claim, present your evidence, and other people repeat your experiments/research and if they arrive at the same conclusions, then it's generally determined that it's a correct conclusion - if something new is learned later, the conclusion can be revised. If you're proven wrong...well, you're wrong, no matter how hard you believe you're right - if you don't have the proof to back it up...you're stuck.
Science has verifiable, falsifiable PROOF to back it up. Would you kindly pick up the nearest dictionary and read the definition of the word faith? Here, I'll do it for you: "faith - belief that is not based on proof"
2007-11-03 18:22:36 · answer #2 · answered by nobody important 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they don't both require faith. Faith means believing in something ridiculous, like an all-seeing, all-knowing entity that reads 10000000000000minds at once.
Scientists do sometimes make things up, but the other scientists soon find them out. Note "other scientists". It's like any trade. The ones who don't or can't do it properly get kicked out.
2007-11-03 18:15:55 · answer #3 · answered by Tom P 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Faith in god is emotion. Evidence for it is not needed. Evidence against it is not appropriate.
Rather different from science, wouldn't you think?
2007-11-03 18:23:27 · answer #4 · answered by Saint Nearly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, science requires evidence and testing. If you try to lie, you get caught and exposed.
Just ask Dr. Andrew Wakefield of the UK and the embarrassment he caused The Lancet.
2007-11-03 18:15:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The scientific process does not allow scientists to make things up. Everything is in the open, and open to objection.
Faith is basically being told to shut up and don't ask questions
2007-11-03 18:15:33 · answer #6 · answered by southswell2002 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, because in science multiple independent people go through every damn experiment.
If a scientist makes something up, they get corrected by their peers.
2007-11-03 18:15:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A scientist that "makes-up" findings will soon be found out. That's the way it is set up.
2007-11-03 18:14:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Scientists always like 2 have proof! god on the other hand shows no proff he exists. god doesnt exist!
2007-11-03 18:16:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
nope there's a total difference faith in god is for how to live life faith is science is tell what's in life snd where it came from they're like opposites ;p
2007-11-03 18:14:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋