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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Your not sorry. Your a rabid atheist and live for opportunities to attack other people's faith without acknowledging your own blind faith.
That in fact is why I phrased my original post the way I did. You lack the ability to question scientific dogma because it is where your faith lies. You just can't see it.
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Not this old chestnut again. Faith in science is not the same as faith in the super-natural.
http://www.skepdic.com/faith.html
There are reasons for trusting science and there are reasons for religious convictions, but the reasons for our trust in science are called evidence and the reasons for our religious convictions all reduce to hope.
Physicist Bob Park explains this difference in a way even the most devious casuist should understand. The Oxford Concise English Dictionary, he notes, gives two distinct meanings for faith:
"1) complete trust or confidence, and 2) strong belief in a religion based on spiritual conviction rather than proof." A scientist's "faith" is built on experimental proof. The two meanings of the word "faith," therefore, are not only different, they are exact opposites.*