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Quote by: Alive  I'm not going to argue with you because you are basically correct, but I do want to make one point.
Science does not get a pass because of technology, but because it has been incredibly successful at predicting things which no other system has ever been able to predict. If you want to claim that this predictive power is just a coincidence, have fun using your own system, I'll keep my faith (and it is faith) in science! |
No i am a pretty firm believer in science. And yes predictive power is a huge argument for science. I just wanted to bring up some interesting topics in the philosophy of science because most people do not know they exist.
I do agree with you, partly, that science can be a faith, but it does not have to be (I do not know if you are familiar with Thomas Kuhn or Paul Feyerabend) but they might agree with you and I would too, with some people, and in times of normal science. However, I think this little bit of faith is what drives science to greater heights. But at the same time I do not believe faith is the right word because unlike faith scientist have a justified reason to believe in what they do and with philosophers of science constantly questioning scientific methods it seems to contrast with faith never questioning their methods.