What are your opinions on science and faith?

alexis: What are your opinions on science and faith?
One of the worlds worst disasters is religion. Everyone has their own beliefs and each person believes they are right. How do you know your right? Science is the most reliable source to depend on because it bases everything on hypothesis and finding the conclusion and proof of something. Science hasn’t proven any religion yet. So how do you know for sure your religion is right? Sure we have books that explain the way everything was created, but how can we understand the books? Certain words could have meant something different in the old days and those people that believe they know whats right, could be wrong. So what are your opinions on science and faith?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Marco M
From a scientific point of view your mother is probably an ordinary person with ordinary flaws — right?. And yet you love her, don’t you? Why is that? If I tested her IQ, and showed you where she fits on the scale f humanity, you’d believe me, wouldn’t you? (After all, I have scientific evidence.) And yet to you, her mind is wonderful. That is the difference between Faith and Science. Faith is love; science is fact. They’re different things, but not enemies of each other.

Answer by alex
Faith/a God is argued against because you can’t prove a God. But that’s the whole point of faith, is not needing proof. Placing all your trust in science is kind of dumb to me. You’re just following the ideas of what scientists have “proven” and usually people don’t even know what they’re believing, they just believe it because some scientist said it. I just answered a question similar to this for my philosophy class so I’ll just copy it…

“The general public’s view of scientific knowledge is like building a house. We start with a foundation, and a house is built as we make scientific advancements. Thomas Kuhn views progressions in scientific knowledge more like an apple cart; when it becomes full, it overflows so as to make room for more apples to be added to the cart. Scientists develop theories, but instead of building on the same theories other scientists find way to disprove old ones. Original theories are just kept around until a new one can disprove them or they no longer explain what they were meant to. Many of the scientific theories we accept as truths will be replaced with another or proven wrong. We used to accept that the world was square, now it considered certain that it is round. In a few years will it be proven to be a different shape? Evolution is just a theory, but it is considered by many to be a scientific fact. It is accepted by many because there is not another explanation that is absolutely certain (though neither is evolution). “

Answer by Corvus
Defenders of faith often withdraw into the whole epistemological argument that we can’t know anything and we all use faith to an extent. While this may be true, I like to believe that scientists have ‘faith in the evidence’ while believers simply have faith, either in a book or their own religious experience, but they don’t question what they believe, read or experience. Scientists doubt scientific knowledge all the time by putting theories through rigorous experiments and actually testing what we know.

Answer by All hat
Science is hard work and doesn’t always give pleasant results. Faith is a quick, easy, route to comfort, however insubstantial.